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Last Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Last Words

No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. Last Words captures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt to extract themselves from the context o...

The Sea and Medieval English Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

The Sea and Medieval English Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: DS Brewer

A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privile...

Medieval English Travel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Medieval English Travel

Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English n...

Last Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Last Words

No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. Last Words captures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt to extract themselves from the context o...

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature

  • Categories: Law

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages

Focuses on the literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago.

Unwritten Verities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Unwritten Verities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.

Paper in Medieval England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Paper in Medieval England

Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.

Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative

An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.