"Marisa Galvez challenges received ideas about medieval lyric poetry and Arthurian romance at a time when terms like "crusade," "medieval," and "holy war" continue to be tossed about unexamined in popular media in relation to Islamist fundamentalism. "The Subject of Crusade" off…
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In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of personal sacrifice and the piou…
"Marisa Galvez challenges received ideas about medieval lyric poetry and Arthurian romance at a time when terms like "crusade," "medieval," and "holy war" continue to be tossed about unexamined in popular media in relation to Islamist fundamentalism. "The Subject of Crusade" off…
"Marisa Galvez challenges received ideas about medieval lyric poetry and Arthurian romance at a time when terms like "crusade," "medieval," and "holy war" continue to be tossed about unexamined in popular media in relation to Islamist fundamentalism. "The Subject of Crusade" off…
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poe…
From the publisher. Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was o…
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poe…
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poe…
Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produ…
From the publisher. Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was o…
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poe…