Socioliterary Practice In Late Medieval England
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Socioliterary Practice In Late Medieval England
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Author : Helen Barr
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-12-06
Socioliterary Practice In Late Medieval England written by Helen Barr and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
Gentry Culture In Late Medieval England
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Author : Raluca Radulescu
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005
Gentry Culture In Late Medieval England written by Raluca Radulescu and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.
Participatory Reading In Late Medieval England
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Author : Heather Blatt
language : en
Publisher: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Release Date : 2018
Participatory Reading In Late Medieval England written by Heather Blatt and has been published by Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with English literature categories.
This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices enabled audiences to make reading work for themselves.
Economic Ethics In Late Medieval England 1300 1500
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Author : Jennifer Hole
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-07
Economic Ethics In Late Medieval England 1300 1500 written by Jennifer Hole and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its ethical dimension, Hole’s socio-cultural study considers not only the ideas and beliefs of theologians and philosophers, but how these influenced assumptions and preoccupations about material concerns in late medieval English society. Beginning with late medieval English writings on economic ethics and its origins, the author illuminates a society which, although strictly hierarchical and unequal, nevertheless fostered expectations that all its members should avoid greed and excess consumption. Throughout, Hole aims to show that economic ethics had a broader application than trade and usury in late medieval England.
Relics And Writing In Late Medieval England
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Author : Robyn Malo
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2013-12-06
Relics And Writing In Late Medieval England written by Robyn Malo and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural history, this study demonstrates that, as the shrines of England’s major saints underwent dramatic changes from c. 1100 to c. 1538, relic discourse became important not only in constructing the meaning of objects that were often hidden, but also for canonical authors like Chaucer and Malory in exploring the function of metaphor and of dissembling language. Robyn Malo argues that relic discourse was employed in order to critique mainstream religious practice, explore the consequences of rhetorical dissimulation, and consider the effect on the socially disadvantaged of lavish expenditure on shrines. The work thus uses the literary study of relics to address issues of clerical and lay cultures, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and writing and reform.
Ethics And Power In Medieval English Reformist Writing
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Author : Edwin D. Craun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-18
Ethics And Power In Medieval English Reformist Writing written by Edwin D. Craun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses.
Mindful Spirit In Late Medieval Literature
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Author : Bonnie Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Mindful Spirit In Late Medieval Literature written by Bonnie Wheeler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary cloth especially suit religious insight? In this collection dedicated to Elizabeth D. Kirk, Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University, several renowned scholars assess those related issues in a range of Medieval texts.
An Introduction To Medieval English Literature
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Author : Anna Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-15
An Introduction To Medieval English Literature written by Anna Baldwin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, it introduces the reader to a diverse range of authors writing for a fast-developing readership of both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a group of genres primarily associated with a particular social class – from the Drama and Saints' Lives accessible to the illiterate, to the sophisticated Romances of Love savoured by the aristocracy and the Court. Lively historical narratives place each group of texts in their social, political and cultural contexts. Significant or typical texts are given more detailed analysis that includes critical issues and questions to guide the reader's own approach, and each section is supported by a detailed bibliography of further reading.
Reading And War In Fifteenth Century England
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Author : Catherine Nall
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2012
Reading And War In Fifteenth Century England written by Catherine Nall and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts; but their relationship has hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this book remedies, arguing that the connections are vital to the literary culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much wider scale. Beginning with a detailed consideration of the circulation of one of the most important military manuals in the Middle Ages, Vegetius' De re militari, it highlights the importance of considering the activities of a range of fifteenth-century readers and writers in relation to the wider contemporary military culture. It shows how England's wars in France and at home, and the wider rhetoric and military thinking those wars generated, not only shaped readers' responses to their texts but also gave rise to the production of one of the most elaborate, rich and under-recognised pieces of verse of the Wars of the Roses in the form of 'Knyghthode and bataile'. It also indicates how the structure, language and meaning of canonical texts, including those by Lydgate and Malory, were determined by the military culture of the period.
The Clerical Proletariat And The Resurgence Of Medieval English Poetry
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Author : Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-05-28
The Clerical Proletariat And The Resurgence Of Medieval English Poetry written by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.