An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies
New Medieval Literatures – now published by Boydell and Brewer – 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 both the British Isles and Europe.
Topics in this volume include the political ecology of
Havelok the Dane: Thomas Hoccleve and the making of ‘Chaucer’; and Britain and the Welsh Marches in
Fouke le Fitz Waryn.
Contributors: Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans, Marcel Elias, Philip Knox, Sebastian Langdell, Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt, George Younge.
Table of Content
The Book of the World at an Anglo-Norman Court: The
Bestiaire de Philippe de Thaon as a Theological Performance – Jonathan Morton
Monks, Money, and the End of Old English – George Younge
Sustainability Romance:
Havelok the Dane’s Political Ecology – Alexis Kellner Becker
Locating the Border: Britain and the Welsh Marches in
Fouke le Fitz Waryn – Emily Dolmans
From
disputatio to
predicatio and back again: Dialectic, Authority and Epistemology between the
Roman de la Rose and the
Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine – Marco Nievergelt
Mixed Feelings in the Middle English Charlemagne Romances: Emotional Reconfiguration and the Failures of Crusading Practices in the Otuel Texts – Marcel Elias
Circularity and Linearity: The Idea of the Lyric and the Idea of the Book in the
Cent Ballades of Jean le Seneschal – Philip Knox
‘What Shal I Calle Thee? What Is Thy Name?’: Thomas Hoccleve and the making of ‘Chaucer’ – Sebastian Langdell
About the author
PHILIP KNOX is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
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