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| Author | : Candace Barrington |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2019-08-08 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107180783 |
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
| Author | : Roberta L. Krueger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2000-06-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521556873 |
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
| Author | : Andrew Cole |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2014-02-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139867326 |
Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have fundamentally altered the very meaning of Langland's art. This Companion thus critically surveys traditional scholarship, with the aim of recuperating its best insights, and it ventures forth into newer areas of inquiry attuned to questions of social setting, institutional context, intellectual and literary history, theory, and the revitalized fields of codicology and paleography. By proceeding through chapters that offer cumulatively wider views as well as stand-alone analyses of topics most crucial to understanding Piers Plowman, this Companion gives serious students and seasoned scholars alike up-to-date knowledge of this intricate and beautiful poem.
| Author | : Samuel Fanous |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2011-05-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139827669 |
The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
| Author | : Elizabeth Archibald |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521860598 |
Covers the evolution of the legend over time and analyses the major themes that have emerged.
| Author | : Larry Scanlon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2009-06-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521841674 |
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
| Author | : Malcolm Godden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2013-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 052119332X |
This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.
| Author | : Michael Maas |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 743 |
| Release | : 2005-04-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139826875 |
This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism, and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, the codification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals taking place at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relations with the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and other eastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highly significant historical period.
| Author | : Clare A. Lees |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 910 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131617509X |
Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.
| Author | : Deirdre Osborne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2016-10-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1107139244 |
"Post-World War II mass migration to Great Britain altered its demographic composition more markedly than in any other period in its history, resulting in a modern multicultural nation state shaped by the ethnic diversity of its citizenry. Populations from African, Caribbean, and South Asian locations arriving in Britain post-war brought diasporic sensibilities and literary heritages that have profoundly transformed British national culture, leading to a more complex and inclusive sense of its past. The Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) examines the creative impact of this rich infusion upon English literature against the backdrop of the seismic social and economic changes triggered by colonialism and migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary globalization"--
