series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections) and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (monographs) are sister series originally inspired by themes drawn from the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. These series provide a home for high‐quality humanities research on topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Although both series have historically focused on medieval Europe, we have expanded geographically and chronologically to embrace a wider conception of the premodern. We welcome studies addressing a range of topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods, and we invite proposals from new and established scholars who employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate literary, historical and material sources and explore what it has meant to be human through the ages.

Submissions

Proposals or completed manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to Tyler Cloherty (tylercloherty44@gmail.com) or (particularly for historical studies) Emily Winkler (emily.winkler@history.ox.ac.uk), the acquisitions editors for the series. For other inquiries, consult Theresa Whitaker (theresa.m.whitaker@wmich.edu). Since the scope of the series is so broad, the press identifies evaluators on a case by case basis before any formal commitment is made to the author. Further, all submitted manuscripts are subject to peer review from an independent expert chosen by the press.

Fachgebiete

book: The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand

Buch Open Access 2024

The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand

Art, Script, and Liturgical Creativity in an Early Medieval Monastery

Arthur Westwell

Band 39 in dieser Reihe

The series of beautiful sacramentaries made at Saint-Amand in the later ninth century offer us unique insight into an early medieval scriptorium at work. These manuscripts contain principally the prayer texts for the celebration of the Mass, a ceremony which stood at the centre of monastic life in this period. They display how this largely neglected genre discloses creativity and initiative on the part of the monks of Saint-Amand, who re-organised and re-composed this especially versatile literature. They made their books uniquely comprehensive and full of insight into how the mass liturgy was re-made at a critical period in its development. This innovative study makes these sources accessible for the first time.

In-depth study of script, decoration, and content enables a new appreciation of the context in which the deluxe Saint-Amand manuscripts were produced. It foregrounds ecclesiastical patronage, the political and intellectual dynamics at the waning of Carolingian power, and the intensive collaboration of scribes, artists, and liturgical composers, as well as the unique ways liturgical manuscripts can inform our understanding of medieval life and thought.　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781501517563
ISBN:: 9781501517563
ISBN:: 9781501517587
ISBN:: 9781501521201
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters
Fachgebiet:: Praktische Theologie
Fachgebiet:: Liturgik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: English Birth Girdles

Buch 2024

English Birth Girdles

Devotions for Women in “Travell of Childe”

Mary Morse

Band 38 in dieser Reihe

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513909
ISBN:: 9781501513909
ISBN:: 9781501518140
ISBN:: 9781501514005
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Religion
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse

Buch 2023

Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse

Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise

Jacob Abell

Band 37 in dieser Reihe

The Earthly Paradise was a vibrant symbol at the heart of medieval Christian geographies of the cosmos. As humanity’s primal home now lost through the sins of Adam of Eve, the Earthly Paradise figured prominently in Old French tales of lands beyond the mundane world. This study proposes a fresh look at the complex roles played by the Earthly Paradise in three medieval French poems: Marie de France’s The Purgatory of St. Patrick, Benedeit’s Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot, and Guillaume de Lorris’s The Romance of the Rose. By examining the literary, cultural, and artistic components that informed each poem, this book advances the thesis that the exterior walls of the Earthly Paradise served evolving purposes as contemplative objects that implicitly engaged complex notions of economic solidarity and idealized community. These visions of the Earthly Paradise stand to provide a striking contribution to a historically informed response to the contemporary legacies of colonialism and the international refugee crisis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514258
ISBN:: 9781501514258
ISBN:: 9781501520570
ISBN:: 9781501514272
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Französische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Canon Fanfiction

Buch 2023

Canon Fanfiction

Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

Christine Schott

Band 36 in dieser Reihe

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film adaptations, but is not as well equipped to treat other uses of source material like prequels, sequels, and spinoffs. On the other hand, fanfiction studies has the broad reach adaptation studies lacks but is generally interested in "underground" production rather than material that goes through the official publication process and thus enters the literary canon. This book sits in the gap between these fields, discussing published novels and their contribution to the scholarly engagement with their pre- and early modern source material as well as applying that creative framework to the teaching of literature in the college classroom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501515972
ISBN:: 9781501515972
ISBN:: 9781501523373
ISBN:: 9781501515989
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 16.-17. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 21. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Buch 2022

The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

David Strong

Band 35 in dieser Reihe

This study examines the various means of becoming empathetic and using this knowledge to explain the epistemic import of the characters’ interaction in the works written by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries. By attuning oneself to another’s expressive phenomena, the empathizer acquires an inter- and intrapersonal knowledge that exposes the limitations of hyperbole, custom, or unbridled passion to explain the profundity of their bond. Understanding the substantive meaning of the characters’ discourse and narrative context discloses their motivations and how they view themselves. The aim is to explore the place of empathy in select late medieval and early modern portrayals of the body and mind and explicate the role they play in forging an intimate rapport.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501515460
ISBN:: 9781501515460
ISBN:: 9781501522529
ISBN:: 9781501515477
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen in den Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Emotion
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 16.-17. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps

Buch Open Access 2022

Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps

Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Ingrid Baumgärtner, Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, Phillip Landgrebe

Band 34 in dieser Reihe

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This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516016
ISBN:: 9781501516016
ISBN:: 9781501523816
ISBN:: 9781501516047
Fachgebiet:: Geowissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kartografie und Photogrammetrie
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Reisen
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

Buch 2022

Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

The Separation of the Citizen from the Self

Lynette Hunter

Band 33 in dieser Reihe

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495–1660, beginning with Erasmus’ work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an ‘absent audience’, and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance.

Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the ‘subject’ and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the ‘self’ defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially ‘middling’ and laboring people and the poor.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514241
ISBN:: 9781501514241
ISBN:: 9781501518577
ISBN:: 9781501514074
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Rhetorik
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie
Fachgebiet:: Einzelne philosophische Strömungen
Fachgebiet:: Humanismus
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Buch 2022

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Other Encounters

Liliana Sikorska

Band 32 in dieser Reihe

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.

Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513367
ISBN:: 9781501513367
ISBN:: 9781501521492
ISBN:: 9781501517914
ISBN:: 9781501513107
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Sprache und Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 19. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Religion
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani’s “New Chronicle”

Buch 2022

The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani’s “New Chronicle”

Rala I. Diakité, Matthew T. Sneider

Band 31 in dieser Reihe

Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is illustrated in several famous chapters describing the city’s income, expenses, and magnificence. The dramatic account follows Florence’s internal affairs as well as its conflicts with powerful lords like Castruccio Castracani and Mastino della Scala. The chronicler’s perspective, however, ranges beyond his city, as he documents such events as the imperial coronation of Louis of Bavaria, the penitential pilgrimage of Venturino da Bergamo, and the first campaigns of the Hundred Year’s War.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514265
ISBN:: 9781501514265
ISBN:: 9781501518423
ISBN:: 9781501514081
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Südeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Italienische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 13.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Dante’s Dream

Buch 2021

Dante’s Dream

A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach

Gwenyth E. Hood

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

Archetypal images, Carl Jung believed, when elaborated in tales and ceremonies, shape culture’s imagination and behavior. Unfortunately, such cultural images can become stale and lose their power over the mind. But an artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, carefully establishing the date at which it came to him (Good Friday, 1300), and maintaining the perspective of that time and place, throughout the work, upon unfolding history. Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche. Some of Dante’s innovations (admission of virtuous pagans to Limbo) and individualized scenes (meeting personal friends in the afterlife) more likely spring from unconscious inspiration than conscious didactic intent. For modern readers, a focus on Dante’s personal dream-journey may offer the best way into his poem.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513725
ISBN:: 9781501513725
ISBN:: 9781501518225
ISBN:: 9781501513565
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Italienische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 13.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Psychologie, Psychoanalyse
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Chaucer’s Polyphony

Buch 2020

Chaucer’s Polyphony

The Modern in Medieval Poetry

Jonathan Fruoco

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style. Indeed, Chaucer’s decision to write in Middle English, in a time when the hegemony of Latin and Old French was undisputed (especially at the court of Edward III and Richard II), was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514364
ISBN:: 9781501514364
ISBN:: 9781501527272
ISBN:: 9781501514043
ISBN:: 9781501518492
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Poetik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis

Buch 2020

The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis

A Manuscript’s Journey from Saint-Denis to St. Pancras

Daniel Williman, Karen Corsano

Band 28 in dieser Reihe

The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in the abbey library of St-Denis-en-France. The authors shed new light on the production process, identifying the illuminator of the Royal MS and naming the scribe. Detailed evidence links the codex to important events in history, such as the Council of Constance, and famous actors like Jean de France, duc de Berry, Sigismund of Luxembourg, Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and Henry VIII, to name a few. The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex. Another dimension of this study accounts for all twenty-two copies of the Chronicle, now scattered in nine cities from London to Vienna, placing each one in a scrupulously drawn stemma codicum and sketching its history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510014
ISBN:: 9781501510014
ISBN:: 9781501518713
ISBN:: 9781501510052
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Buchwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Buchwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Editionswissenschaft
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation

Buch 2020

Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation

Long-Distance Pilgrimage in Northwest Europe

Elizabeth C. Tingle

Band 27 in dieser Reihe

Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries after Luther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saints’ cults and pilgrimage were frequently contested, more so than in the Mediterranean world. France, the Low Countries and the British Isles were places of disputation and hostility between Protestant and Catholic; sacred landscapes and journeys came under attack and in some regions, were outlawed by the state. Taking as case studies hugely popular medieval shrines such as Compostela, the Mont Saint-Michel and Lough Derg, the impact of Protestant criticism and Catholic revival on shrines, pilgrims’ motives and experiences is examined through life writings, devotional works and institutional records. The central focus is that of agency in religious change: what drove spiritual reform and what were its consequences for the ‘ordinary’ Catholic? This is explored through concepts of the religious self, holy materiality, and sacred space.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514388
ISBN:: 9781501514388
ISBN:: 9781501518515
ISBN:: 9781501514135
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Religionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte der Reformationszeit
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric

Buch 2021

The Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric

Scève’s “Délie”

Alison Baird Lovell

Band 26 in dieser Reihe

This book presents an interpretation of Maurice Scève’s lyric sequence Délie, object de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 1544) in literary relation to the Vita nuova, Commedia, and other works of Dante Alighieri. Dante’s subtle influence on Scève is elucidated in depth for the first time, augmenting the allusions in Délie to the Canzoniere of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). Scève’s sequence of dense, epigrammatic dizains is considered to be an early example, prior to the Pléiade poets, of French Renaissance imitation of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry, in a time when imitatio was an established literary practice, signifying the poet’s participation in a tradition. While the Canzoniere is an important source for Scève’s Délie, both works are part of a poetic lineage that includes Occitan troubadours, Guinizzelli, Cavalcanti, and Dante. The book situates Dante as a relevant predecessor and source for Scève, and examines anew the Petrarchan label for Délie. Compelling poetic affinities emerge between Dante and Scève that do not correlate with Petrarch.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513596
ISBN:: 9781501513596
ISBN:: 9781501517976
ISBN:: 9781501513466
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Französische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 16.-17. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Italienische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 13.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Poetik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”

Buch 2020

Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”

“Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller

Becky Renee McLaughlin

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales are rife with issues of mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other – conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones, dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of “shadow” chapters that speak to or against the four “central” chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514104
ISBN:: 9781501514104
ISBN:: 9781501527265
ISBN:: 9781501518416
ISBN:: 9781501514067
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Fachgebiet:: Emotion
Fachgebiet:: Psychologie, Psychoanalyse
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

Buch 2019

Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

Jennifer C. Vaught

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare’s drama and Spenser’s allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero’s art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Complaints.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513152
ISBN:: 9781501513152
ISBN:: 9781501517938
ISBN:: 9781501513091
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 16.-17. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain

Buch 2019

The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain

Megan Lloyd

When James VI of Scotland and I of England proclaimed himself King of Great Britain he proposed a merger of parliaments as he had joined two crowns in his own person ascending the throne of England in 1603. For James, the Cambro-Celtic past led to an Anglo-Scottish present, and Wales stood as the ideal.　Although the parliamentary union of Great Britain was not initiated for another 100 years, Parliament’s denial failed to deter James from wanting a Great Britain, and R. A.’s play The Valiant Welshman became part of the public spectacle of unity required to nurture James’s dream. The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain　considers national, regional and linguistic identity and explores how R.A.’s play promotes Wales, serves King James and reveals what it means to be Welsh and Scots in a newly forming "Great Britain."

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781580443548
ISBN:: 9781580443548
ISBN:: 9783110625400
ISBN:: 9781580443531
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

Ethan Campbell

Band 21 in dieser Reihe

In this fresh reading of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works (Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of their moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters like the biblical prophet Jonah and the Green Knight, who grants a problematic absolution to Sir Gawain.

Through a close reading of each poem with an eye toward congruencies with the poet's contemporaries, Campbell situates the Gawain-poet's works within the rich and varied textual environment of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580443081
ISBN:: 9781580443081
ISBN:: 9781501512780
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame

Robert A. Logan

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame is a characterological study, presenting new perspectives on Antony and Cleopatra, the most ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays. It offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's understanding of the attributes of fame, the process by which it occurs, and the significance of being famous—and into the origins and nature of the playwright's own imperishable fame. Inclusive and enlarging, the study considers a fresh method of dealing with the longstanding difficulties theater-goers and readers have had in responding to the characters of Shakespeare's plays, the seventeenth-century contexts of the play that the playwright both regarded and disregarded, and a close examination of the dramatis personae of Antony and Cleopatra as they struggle to achieve standards of measure that will redound to their fame.

Wide-ranging in its concerns, this monograph promises to make an essential difference in the way scholars view characterizations, Shakespeare's understanding of fame, the eminence of the celebrated figures of the play, and the playwright's own reputation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580443203
ISBN:: 9781580443203
ISBN:: 9781501512858
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 16.-17. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene

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Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene

Judith H. Anderson

Band 19 in dieser Reihe

Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance to an appreciation of women's plights and possibilities in the age of Elizabeth. The figures she highlights encompass the idealization of Una, humanized by parody; the historicized fixation of Belphoebe; the cross-dressed complexity of Britomart; and the psychological misery of Serena, a throwback to Amoret. They range from cartoons to a fullness sharing numerous features with the Shakespearean women salient in recent debates about character. The critical lens most revealing for each important figure is markedly different, even while their interwoven experiences resonate and intersect across this culturally encyclopedic poem. Taken together, their stories have a meaningful tale to tell about the function of narrative, which proves central to figuration in the still moving, metamorphic poem that Spenser created.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580443180
ISBN:: 9781580443180
ISBN:: 9781501512841
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 16.-17. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Medieval London

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Medieval London

Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron

Caroline Barron, Martha Carlin, Joel T. Rosenthal

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442572
ISBN:: 9781580442572
ISBN:: 9781501512698
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

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The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

Gabriella Scarlatta

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

Rich with morose invectives, the Italian lyric genre of the disperata builds toward a crescendo of despair, with the speakers damning and condemning their beloved, their enemy, their destiny, Fortune, Love, and often themselves. Although Petrarch and Petrarchism have been amply analyzed as fertile sources for late Renaissance poets in France, the influence of the Italian disperata in this context has yet to receive proper scholarly attention. This study explores how the language and themes of the disperata - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets from its beginning in the Northernand Southern Italian courts, to France, at the court of the late Valois, where the disperata found great success as a prolific source of imitation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442657
ISBN:: 9781580442657
ISBN:: 9781501512827
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae

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Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae

Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., Phillips

Band 15 in dieser Reihe

Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's 'De consolatione philosophiae' provides an overview of the widespread reception and influence of Boethius's masterpiece in England and Germany, as well as in the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Catalonia, and Byzantium. As this work demonstrates, Boethius is not only a significant Roman author but also a significant translator and adaptor of works written originally in Greek, placing him firmly as an important figure at the moment of transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. As the two introductory articles in this collection affirm, Boethius is recognized as 'the last of the Romans' and the 'first of the Scholastics.' Attested by the articles and the edition in this volume, Boethius's modern influence is global in its importance, not only through the dissemination of his theological and scholarly works, but through the many vernacularizations of his final testament to the world, his Consolatio.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442251
ISBN:: 9781580442251
ISBN:: 9781501512667
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: The Final Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle

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The Final Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle

Rala Diakite, Matthew Sneider

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle traces the history of Florence, Italy, and Europe over a vast sweep of time - from the destruction of the Tower of Babel to the outbreak of the Black Death. This final book, which covers one of the most dramatic periods of the early fourteenth century, is a narrative of transformation, of crisis, in which the author, like many of his contemporaries in the mid-fourteenth century, perceives the punishing hand of God. At the same time, this book, composed by Villani as events were unfolding, reveals - in its attention to detail, in its attempted impartiality, in its desire to make sense of events rather than simply document them - the glimmers of a new historical sensibility.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442268
ISBN:: 9781580442268
ISBN:: 9781501512759
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

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A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

Robert A. Taylor

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from which an intensive renewal was being launched. In this new bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature, Robert Taylor provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the fifteenth-century works of Occitano-Catalan poet Jordi de Sant Jordi - and treats over two thousand recent books and articles with full annotations. Taylor includes articles on related topics such as practical approaches to the language of the troubadours and the musicology of select troubadour songs, as well as articles situated within sociology, religious history, critical methodology, and psychoanalytical analysis. Each listing offers descriptive comments on the scholarly contribution of each source to Occitan literature, with remarks on striking or controversial content, and numerous cross-references that identify complementary studies and differing opinions. Taylor's painstaking attention to detail and broad knowledge of the field ensure that this guide will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442084
ISBN:: 9781580442084
ISBN:: 9781501512711
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Französische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Dendle

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

Anglo-Saxon England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a potential outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of a society that was at the center of multiple conflicting cultural dimensions. Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England is a reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442343
ISBN:: 9781580442343
ISBN:: 9781501512742
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

book: Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past

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Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past

The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota

Philip Mark Robinson-Self

This volume considers the reception in the early modern period of four popular medieval myths of nationhood – the legends of Brutus, Albina, Scota and Arthur – tracing their intertwined literary and historiographical afterlives. The book thus speaks to several connected areas and is timely on a number of fronts: its dialogue with current investigations into early modern historiography and the period’s relationship to its past, its engagement with pressing issues in identity and gender studies, and its analysis of the formation of British national origin stories at a time when modern Britain is seriously considering its own future as a nation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781580443524
ISBN:: 9781580443524
ISBN:: 9783110626681
ISBN:: 9781580443517
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

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