The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-32429-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 935 g

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and ‘isolationism’, this volume:

- Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism.

- Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture.

- Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts.

This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radulescu, Raluca

Rikhardsdottir, Sif

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Medieval English Literature: A trans-European Literary History

Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir

PART I:THE FORMS OF LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION

Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir

- Orality, Vocality, and Textuality

Karl Reichl

- Vernacularity

Wendy Scase

- Books and Materiality

J. R. Mattison and Alexandra Gillespie

- Form and Genre

Julie Orlemanski

PART II: INSULAR BORDERS AND LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: INTRODUCTION

Raluca Radulescu

- Middle Welsh

Helen Fulton

- Irish

Aisling Byrne

- Scottish

Caitlin Flynn

- Multilingualism

Ad Putter

PART III: LITERARY GATEWAYS: INTRODUCTION

Sif Rikhardsdottir

- ‘Travel’ of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii

Elizaveta Strakhov

- ‘Travel’ of the Soul via Religiosity: Imaginary and Actual Pilgrimages

Ryan Perry

- French-Speaking Courts and Literary Dominance in Europe

Keith Busby

- The Norman Rule

Laura Ashe

- The Venetian Gateway: Commerce, Plague, Oriental Motifs

Sif Rikhardsdottir

- Origination and Mediation: Sicily

David Wallace

- Islamic Pathways and Imaginary Borders

Shirin A. Khanmohamadi

- Mercantile Networks

Craig E. Bertolet

- Maps and the Medieval World at Large

Matthew Boyd Goldie

PART IV: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: INTRODUCTION

Raluca Radulescu

- The Endurance of Early English Literary Traditions

Orietta Da Rold

- Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Chronicle Tradition

Jaclyn Rajsic

- Marie de France and Middle English Romance

Cory James Rushton

- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Tradition

Lawrence Warner

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Marion Turner

- John Gower

Siân Echard

- William Langland: European Poet?

Marco Nievergelt

- Hoccleve and Lydgate: Transnationalism and Tradition

Sebastian J. Langdell

- Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Female Spirituality

Laura Kalas

-

The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context

Christiania Whitehead

- Medieval English Drama and Performance

Charlotte Steenbrugge

- Thomas Malory

Raluca Radulescu

- Hagiography

Karen A. Winstead

PART V: THE MODERN MIDDLE AGES: INTRODUCTION

Sif Rikhardsdottir

- Emotion

Andrew Lynch

- Race

Wan-Chuan Kao

- Gender/Queer

Laura Saetveit Miles and Samantha Katz Seal

- Postcolonialism

Patricia Clare Ingham and Abby Ang

- Ecocriticism

Michael J. Warren

- Human/Animal

Karl Steel

- Medievalism

David Matthews

Über Autor(innen)

Raluca Radulescu is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Director of the Centre for Arthurian Studies at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is currently the elected Vice-President of the International Arthurian Society. Her research and publications focus on all aspects of medieval literature and studies, particularly on Arthurian and non-Arthurian romance, Thomas Malory, gentry studies, chronicles (including the Middle English Brut and genealogies) and manuscript culture. She has published two monographs (2003 and 2013) and eleven collections of co-edited essays, among them Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Medieval Britain (2015), co-ed. with Margaret Connolly. She is currently writing a book on the Middle English Prose Brut and co-editing, with Andrew Lynch, the Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture (CHALC) in 2 volumes.

Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts. She works on cross-cultural transmission and literary histories, comparative literary theory, gender, literary emotions, and voice in medieval European literature. Her publications include Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia (2012); Emotion in Old Norse: Translations, Voices, Contexts (2017); and most recently the Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (2019), co-edited with Carolyne Larrington and Massimiliano Bampi. Her co-edited volume Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (with Louise D’Arcens) is forthcoming. She has held Visiting Fellowships or Professorships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and St John’s College, University of Oxford.