New Medieval Literatures 22

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-84384-623-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 310 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 145 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Reihe: New Medieval Literatures

New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined.
Essays in this volume engage with widely varied themes, from confession in the domestic household to international politics and statecraft; experimental scientific knowledge, and the supernatural world of demons; canonical Arthurian romance, and scholastic theology in the vernacular; monastic historiographical visions, and geographies of pilgrimage. Investigations range from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, and from England to the Holy Land. Chr?tien de Troyes's Le chevalier de la charrette and Geoffrey Chaucer's Friar's Tale are examined in new ways, and with new conclusions for their engagements with technologies of embodiment and the hermeneutics of bodily contact; La?amon's Brut is shown to bring the expectations of monastic historiography into the vernacular, while Reginald Pecock's radical and sophisticated vernacular theology is explicated in all its dangerous heterodoxy. Multiple narratives converge and are occluded at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron; Albert the Great experiments with animals and reorients humans in the natural world; Alain Chartier strives to build a united French state. Finally, domestic, familial, and civic bonds of obligation emerge in the shared textual communities of anonymous, late-medieval confessional forms.
CONTRIBUTORS: ROBYN A. BARTLETT, KANTIK GHOSH, AYLIN MALCOLM, ALASTAIR MINNIS, LUKE SUNDERLAND, JAMIE K. TAYLOR, HANNAH WEAVER, LUCAS WOOD.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashe, Laura

Knox, Philip

Robertson, Kellie

Scase, Wendy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sunderland, Luke

Taylor, Jamie

Weaver, Hannah

Malcolm, Aylin

Alastair J. Minnis, Alastair J.

Bartlett, Robyn

Wood, Lucas

Ghosh, Kantik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Touch and Movement in Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la Charrette - Luke Sunderland
2 Cavernous Charisma: The Caves of the Patriarchs at Hebron - Jamie K. Taylor
3 Lawman's Vision of History: Sources and Figuration in the Brut - Hannah Weaver
4 What the Mole Knows: Experience, Exempla, and Interspecies Dialogue in Albert the Great's De animalibus - Aylin Malcolm
5 Demonic Prosthesis and the Walking Dead: The Materiality of Chaucer's Green Yeoman - Alastair Minnis
6 Learning to Live in Communities: Household Confession and Medieval Forms of Living - Robyn A. Bartlett
7 Alain Chartier's Quadrilogue invectif and the Poetics of Political Community - Lucas Wood
8 Reginald Pecock's moral philosophie and Robert Holcot O.P.: Faith, Probabilism, and 'Conscience' - Kantik Ghosh

Über Autor(innen)

Ashe, Laura
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

Knox, Philip
PHILIP KNOX is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

Robertson, Kellie
KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.

Scase, Wendy
WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.