Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England

Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England
Title Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England PDF eBook
Author Sarah Elliott Novacich
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 231
Release 2017-03-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316828581

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Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - across works of poetry, performance records, and iconography in order to demonstrate how medieval artists turned to sacred history to think through aspects of cultural transmission. Performances of the loss of Eden blur the relationship between original and record; stories of Noah's ark foreground the difficulty of compiling inventories; and engagements with the Harrowing of Hell suggest the impossibility of separating the past from the present. Reading Middle English plays alongside chronicles, poetry, and works of visual art, Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England considers how poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance all contribute to our understanding of the ways in which medieval thinkers imagined the archive.

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages
Title New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Emily N. Savage
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 312
Release 2024-03-25
Genre History
ISBN 100385236X

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This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the archive, and contributors examine material from Seville to Prague, from the early Christian period through the Reformation. Premodern collections and archival practices are increasingly becoming the subject of academic inquiry. Chapter authors investigate how institutional, communal, and familial identity accrued to material culture, including illuminated manuscripts, ecclesiastic vestments, ancient sarcophagi, and reliquaries. Others examine the social impulses behind the documentation of such collections, namely through the creation of inventories, but also in the production, management, and use of parchment records, including cartularies, estate records, and legal documents. Finally, contributors question how medieval people evaluated historical age and outmoded artistic styles; shaped and promoted collective memory through preservation, display, and ritual; and attached value, both monetary and symbolic, to their collections. The volume is cross-disciplinary and will appeal to a variety of readers, both in and out of academia. Curators, librarians, and archivists working with medieval collections will find it valuable, as will heritage professionals and charities involved in the care of properties which presently or formerly contained medieval treasuries, libraries, and archives.

Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England

Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England
Title Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England PDF eBook
Author Andrew Kraebel
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 325
Release 2020-03-05
Genre Bibles
ISBN 1108486649

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A new history of the origins of the English Bible, revealing the complex continuities between Latin commentaries and English translations.

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature
Title The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature PDF eBook
Author Anne Schuurman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 269
Release 2023-12-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009385968

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Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the development of market economies, showing that the same idea of debt is in fact intrinsic to both. The double penitential-financial meaning of debt, and the spiritual paradoxes it creates, is a linchpin of scholastic and vernacular theology, and of the imaginative literature of late medieval England. Focusing on the doubleness of debt, this book traces the dynamic by which the Christian ascetic ideal, in its rejection of material profit and wealth acquisition, ends up producing precisely what it condemns. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
Title A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century PDF eBook
Author Mark Faulkner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 315
Release 2022-07-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009033093

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A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.

Middle English Mouths

Middle English Mouths
Title Middle English Mouths PDF eBook
Author Katie L. Walter
Publisher
Pages 273
Release 2018-06-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108426611

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First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.

Paper in Medieval England

Paper in Medieval England
Title Paper in Medieval England PDF eBook
Author Orietta Da Rold
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 297
Release 2020-10
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1108840574

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Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.