Anglicising Romance

Anglicising Romance
Author: Rhiannon Purdie
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843841622

A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated.

Landscape in Middle English Romance

Landscape in Middle English Romance
Author: Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108913091

Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.

Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance

Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance
Author: Jane Bliss
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843841592

A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.

Codex Ashmole 61

Codex Ashmole 61
Author: George Shuffelton
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1580444423

Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage study of the entire manuscript as a valuable witness to the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.

The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England

The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England
Author: Mary Catherine Flannery
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843843366

Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in the fields of exemplarity, rhetoric and poetry. Beyond its specific legal and pastoral applications, inquisitio was a dialogic mode of inquiry, a means of discerning, producing or rewriting truth, and an often adversarial form of invention and literary authority. The essays in this volume cover such topics as the theory and practice ofcanon law, heresy and its prosecution, Middle English pastoralia, political writing and romance. As a result, the collection redefines the nature of inquisition's role within both medieval law and culture, and demonstrates the extent to which it penetrated the late-medieval consciousness, shaping public fame and private selves, sexuality and gender, rhetoric, and literature. Mary C. Flannery is a lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne; Katie L. Walter is a lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. Contributors: Mary C. Flannery, Katie L. Walter, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Edwin Craun, Ian Forrest, Diane Vincent, Jenny Lee, James Wade, Genelle Gertz, Ruth Ahnert, Emily Steiner

2002

2002
Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2011-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110932989

Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1974-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521200042

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.