Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to…
The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this …
How medieval texts represent and reproduce normative heterosexual identities.
Over six hundred years before John Milton's <i>Paradise Lost</i>, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social …
Main description: Obwohl in der mediävistischen Forschung Fragen der Mündlichkeit mittelalterlicher Dichtung viel diskutiert werden, fehlt es an einer übergreifenden, handbuchartigen Darstellung. Im De Gruyter-Lexikon 'Medieval Oral Poetry' gibt ein internationales Team von Wiss…
Exploring medieval literary representations of the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711, Hazbun discusses chronicles, epic and clerical poetry, and early historical novels. While material on the conquest of Spain is substantial, it is understudied and this book works to fill that ga…
by Davies, Abe
fromEarly modern literature in history
"Original, versatile, and full of lively critical perceptions, this is a major contribution to early modern literary scholarship and intellectual history." -- Professor Neil Rhodes, author of Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England (2018) "A wide…
This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of gender, and representations of the role of art in society. Although the figure of…
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "plague writing" from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously between the medieval …
This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household,…
Critical scholarship has established that “the earliest and the most authoritative copies” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales are the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 392D, and San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, …
This dissertation pursues two distinct but parallel projects in relation to the work of Bernard of Clairvaux and Middle English imaginative literature. First, I argue for a Bernardine anagogical lens as a way to better understand the deepest theological commitments and most dist…
More than one contemporary scholar has written about the “search” for the Anglo-Saxon oral poet. They consider historical texts and poetry and every other possible place where some record of who the Anglo-Saxon scop may have been might be found. Some claim to recognize the Old E…
