Representing Righteous Heathens In Late Medieval England
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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.
Author | : Frank Grady |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2009 |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.