Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England

Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England
Author: F. Grady
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137123672

This book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower. Grady also illustrates the way these figures have been used to explore a variety of historical, cultural and formal literary issues.

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature
Author: Erin K. Wagner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2024-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501512099

Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority.

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature
Author: K. Kennedy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-05-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230621627

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was depicted in literature by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Lydgate. Kennedy uses close readings and medieval letter collections to provide a documentary look at how lords and men communicated information about their relationships and reveals surprising information about both medieval law and society.

Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature

Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature
Author: J. Mitchell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230620728

Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.

Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Author: T. Pugh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230610528

This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.

Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England

Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England
Author: M. Krummel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 023011718X

Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England.

Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture

Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
Author: Valerie B. Johnson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2022-03-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501514210

Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature

The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature
Author: J. Citrome
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1137096810

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wide-ranging study.

England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century

England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century
Author: M. Bullòn-Fernandez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230603106

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection of essays by American, British, and Iberian scholars examines the literary, historical, and artistic exchanges between England and Iberia from the Twelfth to Fifteenth century.