Revisiting the Medieval North of England

Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Title Revisiting the Medieval North of England PDF eBook
Author Anita Auer
Publisher University of Wales Press
Pages 177
Release 2019-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 1786833964

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1. Interdisciplinary nature of the volume 2. Reflection of recent work carried on the North of England in various projects 3. Sheds new light on the North of England (underexplored thus far) and asks new questions / sets out new lines of inquiry for future research (?)

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages
Title Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Joseph Taylor
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 275
Release 2022-12-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009192280

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Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship – imaginative, material, and political – between North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic of desire and derision of the North by the rest of country. Joseph Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism.

Revisiting the Medieval North of England

Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Title Revisiting the Medieval North of England PDF eBook
Author Anita Auer
Publisher University of Wales Press
Pages 190
Release 2019-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 1786833956

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1. Interdisciplinary nature of the volume 2. Reflection of recent work carried on the North of England in various projects 3. Sheds new light on the North of England (underexplored thus far) and asks new questions / sets out new lines of inquiry for future research (?)

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
Title The Afterlife of St Cuthbert PDF eBook
Author Christiania Whitehead
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2020-12-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1108490352

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This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary
Title The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary PDF eBook
Author Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 408
Release 2021
Genre Christian art and symbolism
ISBN 1843845989

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During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and symbolic qualities. This study focuses on the more complex metaphysical functions and meanings attached to it between 1100 and 1400 - and, in particular, those associated with the gardens of Eden and the Song of Songs. Drawing on contemporary theories of gender, gardens, landscape and space, it traces specifically the resurfacing and reworking of the idea and image of the enclosed garden within the writings of medieval holy women and other female-coded texts. In so doing, it presents the enclosed garden as generator of a powerfully gendered hermeneutic imprint within the medieval religious imaginary - indeed, as an alternative "language" used to articulate those highly complex female-coded approaches to God that came to dominate late-medieval religiosity. The book also responds to the "eco-turn" in our own troubled times that attempts to return the non-human to the centre of public and private discourse. The texts under scrutiny therefore invite responses as both literary and "garden" spaces where form often reflects content, and where their authors are also diligent "gardeners" the apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve, for example; the horticulturally-inflected Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenburg and the "green" philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias; the visionary writings of Gertrude the Great and Mechthild of Hackeborn collaborating within their Helfta nunnery; the Middle English poem, Pearl; and multiple reworkings of the deeply problematic and increasingly sexualized garden enclosing the biblical figure of Susanna.

Records of Real People

Records of Real People
Title Records of Real People PDF eBook
Author Merja Stenroos
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 322
Release 2020-12-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027260486

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English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds. However, as relatively few documents have been available digitally or in print, they have been an underresearched resource. This volume shows the tremendous potential of late- and post-medieval English local documents: highly variable in language, often colourful, including developing formulae as well as glimpses of actual recorded speech. The volume contains eleven chapters relating to a new resource, A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The first four chapters outline a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of local documents. The remaining seven present studies of different aspects of the material, including supralocalization, local patterns of spelling and morphology, land terminology, punctuation, formulaicness and multilingualism.

Cushions, Kitchens and Christ

Cushions, Kitchens and Christ
Title Cushions, Kitchens and Christ PDF eBook
Author Louise Campion
Publisher University of Wales Press
Pages 311
Release 2022-01-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 178683832X

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This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including spiritual guidance texts, Lives of Christ and collections of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.