Christopher Cannon & Maura Nolan 
Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature [PDF ebook] 
Essays in Honour of Jill Mann

Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works.


Jill Mann’s writing, teaching, and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of these fields (the relationship of song to affect, the political valence of classical allusion, the Latin background of Middle English devotional texts). Others look again at the literary kinds and ideas most important in Mann’s own work (beast fable, the nature of allegory, the nature of ‘nature’, the relationship of economic thought and literature, satire, language as a subject for poetry) in the poets she hasbeen most drawn to (Chaucer, Langland, Henryson). All of the essays involve close readings of the most careful kind, taking as their primary method Professor Mann’s repeated injunction to attend, above all, to the’words on the page’.


Christopher Cannon is Professor of English, New York University; Maura Nolan is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley.


Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Davis, Peter Dronke, A.S.G. Edwards, Elizabeth B. Edwards, Maura Nolan, Paul J. Patterson, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter, Paul Gerhard Schmidt, James Simpson, Barry Windeatt, Nicolette Zeeman

قائمة المحتويات

Preface

Bibliography of Jill Mann’s Works

The Man of Law’s Tale and Crusade – Siobhain Bly Calkin

The Language Group of the
Canterbury Tales – Christopher Cannon

‘Save man allone’: Human Exceptionality in
Piers Plowman and the Exemplarist Tradition – Rebecca Davis

The Land of Cokaygne: Three Notes on the Latin Background – Peter Dronke

The
Canterbury Tales and
Gamelyn – A S G Edwards

The Cheerful Science: Nicholas Oresme, Home Economics, and Literary Dissemination – Elizabeth Edwards

The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower’s
Vox Clamantis – Maura Nolan

Preaching with the Hands: Carthusian Book Production and the
Speculum Devotorum – Paul Patterson

The Necessity of Difference: the Speech of Peace and the Doctrine of Contraries in Langland’s
Piers Plowman – Derek Pearsall

Chaucer’s
Complaint unto Pity and the Insights of Allegory – Ad Putter

Amor in claustro – Paul Gerhard Schmidt

‘And that was litel nede’: Poetry’s Need in Robert Henryson’s
Fables and
Testament of Cresseid – James Simpson

The Art of Swooning in Middle English – Barry A Windeatt

The Theory of Passionate Song – Nicolette Zeeman

عن المؤلف

James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.