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Modern Language Association of America Teaching the Global Middle Ages
Book SynopsisAlthough globalism may seem like a modern phenomenon, people of the premodern world were also interconnected, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past.The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of medicine into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, and the Malay Annals, and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.Trade ReviewThis book delivers adept and ingenious pedagogical suggestions, some quite specific and some infinitely adaptable." —Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester
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Modern Language Association of America Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose
Book SynopsisEssays on teaching love, ethics, and medieval allegory.One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a window into the world view of the late Middle Ages in Europe, including notions of moral philosophy and courtly love. Yet the Rose also explores topics that remain relevant to readers today, such as gender, desire, and the power of speech. Students, however, can find the work challenging because of its dual authorship by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, its structure as an allegorical dream vision, and its encyclopedic length and scope. The essays in this volume offer strategies for teaching the poem with confidence and enjoyment. Part 1, "Materials," suggests helpful background resources. Part 2, "Approaches," presents contexts, critical approaches, and strategies for teaching the work and its classical and medieval sources, illustrations, and adaptations as well as the intellectual debates that surrounded it.
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Modern Language Association of America Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose
Book SynopsisEssays on teaching love, ethics, and medieval allegory.One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a window into the world view of the late Middle Ages in Europe, including notions of moral philosophy and courtly love. Yet the Rose also explores topics that remain relevant to readers today, such as gender, desire, and the power of speech. Students, however, can find the work challenging because of its dual authorship by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, its structure as an allegorical dream vision, and its encyclopedic length and scope. The essays in this volume offer strategies for teaching the poem with confidence and enjoyment. Part 1, "Materials," suggests helpful background resources. Part 2, "Approaches," presents contexts, critical approaches, and strategies for teaching the work and its classical and medieval sources, illustrations, and adaptations as well as the intellectual debates that surrounded it.
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Modern Language Association of America Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One
Book SynopsisTeaching strategies for one of the world's most widely read collections of stories The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous translations and their impact on the tales' reception; various genres represented by the tales; gender, race, and slavery; and adaptations of the stories in films, graphic novels, and other media across the world and under conditions of both imperialism and postcolonialism. The essays serve instructors in subjects like medieval literature, world literature, and Middle and Near Eastern studies and make a case for teaching the Thousand and One Nights in courses on identity and race.
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Modern Language Association of America Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One
Book SynopsisTeaching strategies for one of the world's most widely read collections of stories The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous translations and their impact on the tales' reception; various genres represented by the tales; gender, race, and slavery; and adaptations of the stories in films, graphic novels, and other media across the world and under conditions of both imperialism and postcolonialism. The essays serve instructors in subjects like medieval literature, world literature, and Middle and Near Eastern studies and make a case for teaching the Thousand and One Nights in courses on identity and race.
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Michigan State University Press The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus
Book SynopsisWho killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves.The Greek word for tragedy means “goat song.” Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him “the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize”, The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus.This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Renaissance Papers 2019
Book SynopsisSixty-sixth annual volume, taking in a range of topics relating to the literature of the period, from the power of naming to Shakespeare and Spenser, Herbert, Margaret Tyler and Margaret Cavendish, and Ben Jonson. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2019 volume, the sixty-sixth annual, features essays from the conference held at North Carolina StateUniversity, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The volume opens with an essay on the power of naming in creating early modern subjectivities, followed by a pair of provocative discussions of Shakespeare's plays:the first addresses temporal gaps in A Winter's Tale; the second is a reading of misogyny in The Taming of the Shrew in which Petruchio is no longer seen as "the true tamer." The two essays at the epicenter of thisyear's volume focus on religious topics, with a consideration of the mystical, specifically the notion of ascesis, in the work of Shakespeare and Spenser, followed by a more sublunary presentation of religious themes in George Herbert's estate poems. The next essay proposes a novel source for Margaret Tyler's reference to "the Jews" in her "Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood" and is followed by a reconsideration of the variety of epitaphic subgenres available in the seventeenth century. The penultimate essay addresses Margaret Cavendish, Ben Jonson, and humanist dramaturgy, and the essay that concludes the journal examines Jonson's attempts to construct a hierarchy of literaryvalue within the complex constraints of the early modern marketplace.Table of ContentsThe Names Two Bodies: Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and the Politics of Correspondence - Deneen M. Senasi "Of that wide gap": Liminality and the Gap of Time in The Winter's Tale - Kara McCabe "To kill a wife with kindness": Contextualizing Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew - Kristen N. Gragg The Harvest of Mysticism in English Renaissance Literature: Ascesis in Spenser and Shakespeare-"silencing the tumult of the flesh" - Robert Lanier Reid A House of Spiderwebs: George Herbert and the Estate Poem - William A. Coulter The Judith Narrative in Margaret Tyler's Mirror of Princely Deeds - Rachel M. De Smith Roberts Knowing Owen: Merry and Satirical Epitaphs on a Butler of Christ Church, Oxford - Faith Acker Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson: Ladies Spaces, Boy Actors, and Wit - Sonia Desai Parnassus Commodified: Ben Jonson and the Printing of Value - Ward J. Risvold
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Arc Humanities Press Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts
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Arc Humanities Press Jewish Poetry and Cultural Coexistence in Late
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Arc Humanities Press A Companion to Medieval Translation
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Arc Humanities Press Why Study the Middle Ages?
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Arc Humanities Press A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer
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Arc Humanities Press Christine de Pizan, Empowering Women in Text and
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Arc Humanities Press Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War:
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Arc Humanities Press A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts
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Arc Humanities Press Antiracist Medievalisms: From “Yellow Peril” to
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Arc Humanities Press The Fu Genre of Imperial China: Studies in the
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Arc Humanities Press Everyday Sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory:
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Arc Humanities Press Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth
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Arc Humanities Press Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and
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Arc Humanities Press Beowulf—A Poem
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Arc Humanities Press Waldef: A French Romance from Medieval England
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Arc Humanities Press Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse:
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Arc Humanities Press Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and
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Arc Humanities Press French Lessons in Late-Medieval England: The
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Arc Humanities Press Reading Fu Poetry: From the Han to Song Dynasties
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Arc Humanities Press Chaucer and Becket’s Mother: The Man of Law’s
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Arc Humanities Press Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary: Text, Music,
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Arc Humanities Press Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
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Arc Humanities Press Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in
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Arc Humanities Press Beowulf by All: Community Translation and
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Arc Humanities Press Beowulf by All: Community Translation and
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Arc Humanities Press Fu Poetry Along the Silk Roads: Third-Century
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Arc Humanities Press Children’s Literature and Old Norse Medievalism
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University of Delaware Press Shakespeare's Folktale Sources
Book SynopsisShakespeare’s Folktale Sources argues that seven plays—The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Cymbeline—derive one or more of their plots directly from folktales. In most cases, scholars have accepted one literary version of the folktale as a source. Recognizing that the same story has circulated orally and occurs in other medieval and early modern written versions allows for new readings of the plays. By acknowledging that a play’s source story circulated in multiple forms, we can see how the playwright was engaging his audience on common ground, retelling a story that may have been familiar to many of them, even the illiterate. We can also view the folktale play as a Shakespearean genre, defined by source as the chronicle histories are, that spans and traces the course of Shakespeare’s career. The fact that Shakespeare reworked folktales so frequently also changes the way we see the history of the literary folk- or fairy-tale, which is usually thought to bypass England and move from Italian novella collections to eighteenth-century French salons. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography listing versions of each folktale source as a resource for further research and teaching. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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University of Delaware Press Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Wall: Gender as Nexus in Renaissance Italy Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater Part I Gendering Genre 1 Widows, Lament, and Ottoman Anxieties in Renaissance FlorenceAnna Wainwright 2 Unhappily Ever After: Moderata Fonte’s Fairy TaleSuzanne Magnanini 3 Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons: Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic PoetryNathalie Hester Part II Gendering Identities 4 The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d’Este (1515–1575), Daughter of Lucrezia BorgiaGabriella Zarri (translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin) 5 A Christian Romance for Married Women: Marriage, Female Spirituality, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci’sRappresentazione di Santa GuglielmaEmanuela Zanotti Carney 6 Maestre Pie Venerini and Filippini: Instituting Public Education for Women in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century LazioJennifer Haraguchi Part III Gendering Sanctity 7 The State of Grace in the Libro del CortegianoMichael Sherberg 8 Singing Women, Saint Cecilia, and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century RomeCourtney Quaintance 9 “Polemics That Might Seem Spiteful in Heaven”: Female Spiritual Authority in Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paradiso MonacaleMeredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater Bibliography Contributors Index
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Liverpool University Press Introducing English Medieval Book History:
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems. Rather than focus on bibliographical particulars, the volume considers a variety of ways in which scholars use manuscripts to discuss book culture, and it provides a wide-ranging introductory bibliography to aid in the study. All the essays try to suggest how the study of surviving medieval books might be useful in considering medieval literary culture more generally. Subjects covered include authorship, genre, discontinuous production, scribal individuality and community, the history of libraries and the history of book provenance.Trade ReviewReviews'Scholarship in this work is superb. Quotations, translations, bibliography are spot on. Professor Hanna’s lifetime of intelligent work in the field glows at all points of discussion.' MS referee'This is a first-rate book from a scholar at the forefront of palaeographical and bibliographical study; it will have a wide readership. It will be an excellent partner for the recent Owen-Crocker volume 'Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.' Series Editors'This handsome volume teaches far more than the facts of book history, manuscript culture, and Middle English Literature. It is a model of how to sleuth, how to think critically, how to enter into a detective mindset 'in which every implicit assumption of knowledge [is] teased out, queried and productively qualified.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenTable of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgements On the reproductions 1. Texts and their books: the case of 'Beowulf' 2. Medieval authors and texts: the Middle English 'Benjamin' Appendix: The manuscripts of 'Benjamin' 3. The history of a book: Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.285 4. Shared exemplars: British Library, MS Cotton Galba E.ix and its relations 5. Scribal oeuvres: ‘Chaucer’s Scribe’ and his 'Canterbury Tales' 6. A book contract and its ‘set text’: John Forbor’s Psalter Appendix: The Slaithwaite indenture: a transcription, translation and notes 7. Provenances: some medieval libraries Appendix: Selections from medieval booklists John Erghome (OESA of York) Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester The lord Welles Index of manuscripts cited Index of scholars cited
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Liverpool University Press A Heraldic Miscellany: Fifteenth-Century
Book SynopsisIt is difficult to envision the Middle Ages without heraldry; knights and ladies are routinely depicted with elaborate arms gracing their shields and clothing. The herald himself is also pervasive in the popular imagination, as he announces the arrival of some grandee. Edited here for the first time are some of the texts which detail the relationship between heraldic design and working heralds. That relationship changed dramatically over the fifteenth century as heralds claimed the right to design, interpret and grant arms according to an elaborate interpretive system. These texts, the work of clerics, heralds and even a future pope, describe the rules of heraldic design and the meaning of colours and charges. They also focus on the role of the herald himself, whether he is serving as a political or personal confidant, or organizing a trial by combat. Finally, they outline an imagined history of the office of arms, claiming that the herald’s authority could be traced to Julius Caesar, the Trojan hero Hector, or even the god Dionysus. These texts, little known in contemporary scholarship, provide valuable insight into the intellectual and visual culture of fifteenth-century chivalric society.Trade Review‘Moll has done an admirable job in establishing the sources and relationships among the complex texts he has edited in this volume, and the English texts themselves. The editions themselves all appear to be models of their kind, meticulously reconstructed and clearly presented, and will surely be of considerable use to heraldists and heraldic historians--whose interests in such matters have increased significantly in recent years--as well as to students of Middle English language and literature.'D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, The Medieval Review‘A Heraldic Miscellany is an impressive book. Alongside editing the texts for the first time, Moll places them within their historical context, discussing the changing role of the herald in the fifteenth century… It is recommended reading. Moll’s intention to attract a wider scholarly audience to heraldic texts will be realised if future editions are of this quality.’ Matthew Ward, Nottingham Medieval Studies'Moll’s volume is a refreshing and overdue resource... By making [medieval heraldic treatises] more readily available for the first time, Moll paves the way for deeper understanding and new perspectives' Sheri Chriqui, The Coat of Arms‘Moll has done an admirable job in establishing the sources and relationships among the complex texts he has edited in this volume, and the English texts themselves. The editions… [are] meticulously reconstructed and clearly presented, and will surely be of considerable use to heraldists and heraldic historians.’ D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, TMRTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of figuresList of abbreviations1. General Introduction2. Johannes de Bado Aureo’s Tractatus de armisIntroductionb) Text3. Eneas Silvio Piccolomini’s Eneas de heraldisa) Introductionb) Text4. Dionisius, furst institutorea) Introductionb) Text5. Adam Loutfut’s manuscripta) Loutfut IntroductionÞe lawe of armes within listisb) Introductionc) TextThe Persewantd) Introductione) TextThe Origynall Determynyng of Blasonyng of Armesf) Introductiong) TextWorks CitedGlossaryIndex
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Liverpool University Press Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe
Book SynopsisThis collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 1350–1550. It showcases innovative research on the history of the book from a range of established and younger scholars from the US and Europe in the fields of English and French Studies, History, Music, and Art History. The collection falls naturally into three sections: • Packaging and Presentation: The physical context of the manuscript and printed book including its binding, visual presentation and internal organization • Consumers: Producers, Owners, and Readers • Consuming the Text: The experience of the audience(s) for books These three strands are interdependent, and highlight the materiality of the manuscript or printed book as a consumable, focusing on its ‘consumability’ in the sense of its packaging and presentation, its consumers, and on the act of consumption in the sense of reading and reception or literal decay.Trade ReviewReviews 'The individual essays are all very well contextualised within their own specific fields, and, significantly, they are aided very substantially by the construction of this volume... This book forms a very valuable contribution to current scholarship in the field of medieval and early modern book production, consumption and reception.'Elisabeth Salter, English Historical Review'This volume highlights the wealth of research output from a number of different fields, as well as the value of interdisciplinary collaboration in producing synergistic outcomes.'Erin Connelly, Nottingham Medieval StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgements - Emma Cayley and Susan Powell Preface - Derek Pearsall List of Figures Section I: Packaging and Presentation: The Materiality of the Manuscript and Printed Book • Anne Marie Lane: ‘How can we Recognise “Contemporary” Bookbindings of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries?’ • Matti Peikola: ‘Guidelines for Consumption: Scribal Ruling Patterns and Designing the mise-en-page in later Medieval England’ • Kate Maxwell: ‘The Order of the Lays in the “Odd” Machaut MS BnF fr. 9221(E)’ • Sonja Drimmer: ‘Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for John Lydgate’s Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund’ • Yvonne Rode: ‘Sixty-three Gallons of Books: Shipping Books to London in the Late Middle Ages’ Section II: Consumers: Producers, Owners, and Readers • Anna Lewis: ‘“But solid food is for the mature, who …have their senses trained to discern good and evil”: John Colop’s Book and the Spiritual Diet of the Discerning Lay Londoner’ • Anne Sutton: ‘The Acquisition and Disposal of Books for Worship and Pleasure by Mercers of London in the Later Middle Ages’ • Martha Driver: ‘“By Me Elysabeth Pykeryng”: Women and Printing in the Early Tudor Period’ • Shayne Husbands: ‘The Roxburghe Club: Consumption, Obsession and the Passion for Print’ Section III - Consuming the Text: Writing Consumption • Carrie Griffin: ‘Reconsidering the Recipe: Materiality, Narrative and Text in Later Medieval Instructional MSS and Collections’ • Anamaria Gellert: ‘Fools, “Folye” and Caxton’s Woodcut of the Pilgrims at Table’ • John B. Friedman: ‘Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer’s Fabliaux Tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Der Ring’ • Mary Morse: ‘Alongside St. Margaret: The Childbirth Cult of SS Quiricus and Julitta in Late Medieval English Manuscripts’ • Emma Cayley: ‘Consuming the Text: Pulephilia in Fifteenth-Century French Debate Poetry’ Notes Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Andreas: An Edition
Book SynopsisThis is the first edition of Andreas for 55 years, also the first to present the Anglo-Saxon, or rather Old English, text with a parallel Modern English poetic translation. The book aims not only to provide both students and scholars with an up-to-date text and introduction and notes, but also to reconfirm the canonical merit of Andreas as one of the longest and most important works in Old English literature. The introduction to our text is substantial, re-positioning this poem in respect of nearly six decades’ progress in the palaeography, sources and analogues, language, metrics, literary criticism and archaeology of Andreas. The book argues that the poet was Mercian, that he was making ironic reference to Beowulf and that his story of St Andrew converting pagan Mermedonian cannibals was coloured by King Alfred’s wars against the Danes (871-9, 885-6, 892-6). Andreas is here dated to Alfred’s later reign with such analysis of contexts in history and ideology that the author’s name is also hypothesized. The Old English text and Modern English translation of Andreas are presented in a split-page format, allowing students at whatever level of familiarity with the Anglo-Saxon vernacular to gain a direct access to the poem in close to its original form. The translation follows the poem’s word order and style, allowing modern readers to feel the imagination, ideology and humour of Andreas as closely as possible. The text of the Old English poem is accompanied by a full set of supporting notes, and a glossary representing the translation.Trade ReviewReviews 'Two major critical editions of [Andreas] were published during the twentieth century [...] but the new edition from Richard North and Michael D.J. Bintley is sure to displace them and become the standard edition cited in professional scholarship. An extraordinary amount of labor appears to have been invested in this massive work, which offers much more than its predecessors. […] An infectious enthusiasm for the poem and its possible connections to Anglo-Saxon intellectual and material culture pervades the book and is bound to spread to some of its readers. North and Bintley’s rich edition should stimulate a wave of new interpretations of Andreas and inspire new investigations into its date of composition and historical context. It is in many respects an exemplary edition, which could serve as a model for new editions of other Old English poems that have been satisfactorily edited before.' Leonard Neidorf, Studia Neophilologica, June 2017'A highlight of this new edition is the presence of a translation, in modern English, on the same page, the old-English text above, the translation down. Quite literally, the translation closely follows the original, making the rich vocabulary and complex syntax of the poem more accessible. ... The critical apparatus also includes a substantial glossary and a bibliography, supplemented by an index that covers both the introduction and the commentary. It is therefore an excellent edition that provides Anglicist medievalists with all the critical tools to both understand Andreas and follow the arguments of R.N. and M.B.' (Translated from French) Leo Carruthers, Le Moyen ge'Learned and precise, Richard North and Michael Bintley's superb new edition will bring this often-bizarre, but always interesting composition to the next few generations of twenty-first century scholars. ... This new authoritative edition of Andreas is a triumph of scholarship.' Andrew Scheil, The Medieval ReviewTable of Contents List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Poem and its Analogues 2. The Manuscript 3. Language and Dialect Phonology Vocabulary Linguistic conclusion 4. Metre and Prosody 5. Poetic Style Poetic allusions to Cynewulf Poetic allusions to Beowulf 6. Mermedonia Boundaries and meeting-places Burial mounds Pagan sites and Christian churches Roman spolia and the Mermedonian prison Pathways in Andreas Mermedonia as a Roman city Mermedonia as a WS burh Summary 7. Date and Authorship Anti-Danish animus WS royal patronage Alfred’s church of St Andrew Alfred’s ‘wealth’ and ‘wisdom’ Note on the Text and Translation Text and Translation List of Emendations Commentary Bibliography Glossary List of Proper Names Index
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Liverpool University Press Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the
Book SynopsisThe catalogue is the first step towards a systematic description of the manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, one of the most influential medieval English works. The Bible is the first complete translation of the Vulgate in English, produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif. In spite of being condemned and banned within twenty five years of its appearance, it became the most widely disseminated medieval English text. The catalogue contains detailed descriptions of all (64 in total) manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in Oxford collections (the Bodleian and college libraries). This is a substantial part of the whole corpus: 250 manuscripts of the Bible survive and Oxford has the largest number of copies in any single location. The descriptions are subdivided into sections covering textual contents, decoration, dialect, physical makeup and binding of each manuscript, and are accompanied by bibliographies. The descriptions are preceded by an introduction with a discussion of the manuscript tradition of the Wycliffite Bible and the findings resulting from the study of Oxford copies. The catalogue also contains several appendices illustrating important features of the manuscripts.Trade ReviewReviews 'This is in every important respect a model exercise in clear, careful and methodical description of a complex body of material.'TLS'Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible will be a necessary resource for scholars working on the Wycliffite Bible, and also for codicologists examining Middle English book production.' Kathleen E. Kennedy, Journal for Manuscript Studies'It will become an invaluable tool for anyone interested in the study of the Wycliffite Bible, and will surely be joined by deeper analyses and other tools that will further our understanding of this--now less understudied-- class of manuscripts.' Eyal Poleg, The Medieval Review‘The Wycliffite Bible… has received little serious scholarly attention. Elizabeth Solopova’s research is changing all that. […] It is to be hoped that other scholars will follow Solopova’s exemplary lead in cataloguing additional location-specific subgroups of WB manuscripts.’Michael P. Kuczynski, Medium AevumTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations List of manuscripts List of illustrations Introduction The form of entries The Catalogue Appendix 1. The contents of the Wycliffite Bible 2. Manuscripts containing the Earlier Version or combining the Earlier and Later Versions 3. The contents of manuscripts 4. The origin and provenance of manuscripts 5. Types of medieval owners 6. Presentation of text 7. Rubrics to Gospels and their Prologues (collation) Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: The History, Language
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications. More charters survive from Anglo-Saxon England than texts of any other type. In a society in which the ownership of land was fundamental to status, wealth and power, the charters which gifted and guaranteed landholdings were crucial not only as legal documents but also as instruments of political power. As responsibility for their production was increasingly centralised at the royal court in the ninth and tenth centuries, charters also became vehicles forroyal and religious propaganda, reflecting the dynamic and creative culture of tenth-century England. Through an analysis of the extraordinarily sophisticated Latin in which these documents were written, this book demonstrates the literary ambitions of their draughtsmen (who may certainly be considered as Anglo-Latin literary authors in their own right), and also sheds light on the political ideologies of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and enigmatic kings and churchmen. Most tantalising of all, perhaps, is the fact that the language of royal charters, which may preserve some of the very words uttered by the king, provides an unparalleled view of the mechanisms by whichthe developing kingdom of England was governed. Not only does it indicate the increasingly sophisticated bureaucracy of an administratively advanced state, but it also reveals an atmosphere of literary and cultural attainment, emanating directly from the king's court, as rich as any in the early medieval Insular world. Ben Snook teaches History at the Godolphin and Latymer School, London.Trade ReviewThis monograph is an informed and invaluable contribution to the field, supplying a valuable resource that provides new answers to pressing questions and opens up fertile grounds for further consideration and research. * MANUSCRIPTA *[T]here is a great deal to enjoy and profit from in this book. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction Brave New World: the Charters of Alfred and Edward Æthelstan 'Æthelstan A' Turbulent Priests: Dunstan, Cenwald and Oda Back to the Future: Edgar and 'Edgar A' Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and
Book SynopsisEssays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everyday knowledge. This book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between people and beasts. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art, language, literature, place-names and landscapes, the studies presented here reveal a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, monsters and objects were blurred and often permeable, and where to represent the bestial could be to holda mirror to the self. Michael D.J. Bintley is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University; Thomas J.T. Williams is a doctoral researcher at UCL's Institute of Archaeology. Contributors: Noël Adams, John Baker, Michael D. J. Bintley, Sue Brunning, László Sándor Chardonnens, Della Hooke, Eric Lacey, Richard North, Marijane Osborn, Victoria Symons, Thomas J. WilliamsTrade ReviewAn engaging and thought-provoking overview of various types of evidence that shed light on both medieval perceptions of beasts and the often blurred boundaries between them and humans....The varieties of beasts and diverse source materials considered here make this volume valuable not only to those interested in natural history, but also for those interested in medieval allegories for, and expressions of, identity, warfare and the supernatural. * EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE *This collection of essays combines rigorous analysis with insightful guidance. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *An excellent volume for anyone with an interest in early medieval England and Scandinavia. * TIME & MIND *A welcome addition to the growing collection of studies of medieval human-animal relations. Its contribution is that it goes beyond the simple juxtaposition of traditional zooarchaeological analyses and more discursive artistic/literary pieces. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *The essays in Representing Beasts cogently and vividly convey a broader understanding of human and non-human interaction during the Middle Ages in England and Scandinavia . This tightly constructed collection of essays would be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in ecomedievalism and/or animal studies. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsRepresenting Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia: an Introduction - Michael D.J. Bintley and Thomas J.T. Williams Between Myth and Reality: Hunter and Prey in Early Anglo-Saxon Art - Noël Adams '(Swinger of) the Serpent of Wounds': Swords and Snakes in the Viking Mind - Sue Brunning Wreoþenhilt ond wyrmfah: Confronting Serpents in Beowulf and Beyond - Victoria Symons The Ravens on the Lejre Throne: Avian Identifiers, Odin at Home, Farm Ravens - Marijane Osborn Beowulf's Blithe-Hearted Raven - Eric Lacey Do Anglo-Saxons Dream of Exotic Sheep? - László Sándor Chardonnens You Sexy Beast: The Pig in a Villa in Vandalic North Africa and Boar-Cults in Old Germanic Heathendom - Richard North 'For the Sake of Bravado in the Wilderness': Confronting the Bestial in Anglo-Saxon Warfare - Thomas J.T. Williams Where the Wild Things Are in Old English Poetry - Michael D.J. Bintley Entomological Etymologies: Creepy-Crawlies in English Place-Names - John Baker Beasts, Birds and Other Creatures in Pre-Conquest Charters and Place-Names in England - Della Hooke
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Textiles, Text, Intertext: Essays in Honour of
Book SynopsisEssays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts, and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and intertextual relationships between text and textile. MAREN CLEGG HYER is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of English at Valdosta State University; JILL FREDERICK is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Contributors: Marilina Cesario, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Martin Foys, Jill Frederick, Joyce Hill, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Christina Lee, Michael Lewis, Robin Netherton, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Donald Scragg, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach, Elaine Treharne.Trade ReviewOwen-Crocker is held in high esteem and affection by scholars and researchers in many fields and . . . her enthusiasm and encouragement have inspired researchers both within and outside traditional academia. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Maren Clegg Hyer A Personal Recollection - Robin Netherton List of Publications of Gale R. Owen Crocker The Language of Dress and Textiles in Wills of the Old English Period - Louise Sylvester Opus what? The Textual History of Medieval Embroidery Terms and Their Relationship to the Surviving Embroideries c. 800-1400 - Elizabeth Coatsworth Intertextuality in the Bayeux Tapestry: The Form and Function of Dress and Clothing - Michael Lewis Birds of a Feather: Magpies in the Bayeux Tapestry? - Carol Neuman de Vegvar Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes - Christina Lee Text, Textile, Context: Aldhelm and Word-weaving as Metaphor in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature - Maren Clegg Hyer The Weft of War in the Exeter Book Riddles - Jill Frederick Fyrene dracan in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Marilina Cesario Old English in the Margins - Donald G Scragg Weaving Words on the Ruthwell Cross - Catherine E. Karkov Fates of the Apostles and Tituli - Paul E Szarmach Weaving and Interweaving: The Textual Traditions of Two of Ælfric's Supplementary Homilies - Joyce Hill Invisible Things in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv - Elaine Treharne Redacting Harold Godwinson: the Vita Haroldi and William of Malmesbury - Martin Foys
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations
Book SynopsisFirst full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period. The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European historical writing and, as such, are essential sources of medieval history forstudents and scholars alike. The essays here consider Orderic's life and works, presenting new research on existing topics within Orderic studies and opening up new directions for future analysis and debate. They offer fresh interpretations from across the disciplines of medieval manuscript studies, English-language studies, archaeology, theology, and cultural memory studies; they also revisit established readings. CHARLES C. ROZIER gained hisPhD from the University of Durham; DANIEL ROACH gained his PhD from the University of Exeter; GILES E.M. GASPER is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham; ELIZABETH VAN HOUTS is Honorary Professor of Medieval European History, University of Cambridge. Contributors: William M. Aird, Emily Albu, James G. Clark, Vincent Debiais, Mark Faulkner, Giles E. M. Gasper, Véronique Gazeau, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisabeth Mégier, Thomas O'Donnell, Benjamin Pohl, Daniel Roach, Thomas Roche, Charles C. Rozier, Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, Kathleen Thompson, Elisabeth van Houts, Anne-Sophie Vigot,Jenny WestonTrade Review[This] affordable volume is an essential read for students and scholars working on many facets of medieval life in the twelfth century -- JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL MONASTIC STUDIESA strength of the volume is that it is truly and candidly interdisciplinary. The subtitle Interpretations stresses this: the value of the book is as much in the number of different angles on Orderic as it is in the new insights it offers into Orderic himself. * HISTORY *Will be required reading for all interested in the Anglo-Norman world and in its historical writing. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *[T]his volume offers new perspectives suggesting that a more interdisciplinary approach to medieval historical texts is worthwhile, and it will surely benefit any student or scholar of the period. * COMITATUS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interpreting Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier and Daniel Roach Orderic and His Father Odelerius - Elisabeth M C van Houts Following the Master's Lead: The Script of Orderic Vitalis & the Discovery of a New Manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540) - Jenny Weston Orderic as Librarian and Cantor of Saint-Évroul - Charles C. Rozier Orderic and English - Mark Faulkner Saint-Évroul and Southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica - Daniel Roach Reading Orderic Vitalis with Charters in Mind - Thomas Roche Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing Technique Between History and Poetry - Vincent Debias Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing Technique Between History and Poetry - Estelle Ingrand-Varenne Orderic Vitalis and the Cult of Saints - Véronique Gazeau Orderic's Secular Rulers and Representations of Personality and Power in the Historia ecclesiastica - William M. Aird Worldly Woe and Heavenly Joy: The Tone of the Historia ecclesiastica - Emily Albu Jesus Christ, a Protagonist of Anglo-Norman History? History and Theology in Orderic Vitalis' Historia ecclesiastica - Elisabeth Megier Orderic Vitalis, Historical Writing and a Theology of Reckoning - Giles E.M. Gasper Studiosi abdita investigant: Orderic Vitalis and The Mystical Morals of History - Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn Meanders, Loops, and Dead Ends: Literary Form and the Common Life in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica - Thomas O'Donnell Orderic and the Tironensians - Kathleen Thompson 'One single letter remained in excess of all his sins.' Orderic Vitalis and Cultural Memory - Benjamin Pohl The Reception of Orderic Vitalis in the Later Middle Ages - James G. Clark New Archaeological Investigations at the Abbey of Saint-Évroul-nôtre-Dame-des-bois - Anne-Sophie Vigot Appendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis - Jenny Weston Appendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Cited
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600
Book SynopsisAn examination of written and other responses to conflict in a variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to self-mortification and martyrdom; from comedic brutality to civil and domestic aggression. Various cultural frameworks conditioned both the acceptance of these forms of violence, and the protest that they met with: the elusive concept of chivalry, Christianity and just wartheory, political ambition and the machinery of propaganda, literary genres and the expectations they generated and challenged. The essays here, from the disciplines of history, art history and literature, explore how violence and conflict were documented, depicted, narrated and debated during this period. They consider manuals created for and addressed directly to kings and aristocratic patrons; romances whose affective treatments of violence invitedprofoundly empathetic, even troublingly pleasurable, responses; diaries and "autobiographies" compiled on the field and redacted for publication and self-promotion. The ethics and aesthetics of representation, as much as the violence being represented, emerge as a profound and constant theme for writers and artists grappling with this most fundamental and difficult topic of human experience. JOANNA BELLIS is the Fitzjames Research Fellow in Oldand Middle English at Merton College, Oxford; LAURA SLATER holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London. Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Anne Curry, David Grummitt, Richard W. Kaeuper, Andrew Lynch, Christina Normore, Laura Slater, Sara V. Torres, Matthew Woodcock,Trade ReviewRepresenting War and Violence is a valuable and enjoyable read. The editors are to be commended for bringing together such a variety of innovative material and for synthesizing these pieces in a clear and cohesive dialogue. They have provided an admirable model for future collections of interdisciplinary research across the field of medieval studies. * LEFT HISTORY *Table of Contents'Representation' and Medieval Mediations of Violence - Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater Medieval Warfare-Representation Then and Now - Richard W Kaeuper Depicting Defeat in the Grandes Chroniques de France - Christina Normore Visualising War: the Aesthetics of Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure - Anne Baden-Daintree 'With face pale': Melancholy Violence in John Lydgate's Troy and Thebes - Andrew Lynch 'In Praise of Peace' in Late Medieval England - Sara V. Torres Representing Political Violence in La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei - Laura Slater Representing War and Conquest, 1415-1429: the Evidence of College of Arms Manuscript M9 - Anne Curry Tudor Soldier-Authors and the Art of Military Autobiography - Matthew Woodcock Three Narratives of the Fall of Calais in 1558: Explaining Defeat in Tudor England - David Grummitt Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of
Book SynopsisNew essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita. The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history. In the twentieth century it was the subject of unresolved scholarly controversy that tended to limit its usefulness. However, more recent research has firmly re-established its significance as a historical source. This volume presents the results of new, multi-disciplinary, assessment of the textand its context. What emerges from the studies collected here is a context of greater plausibility for the First Life of St Samson of Dol as an early and essentially historical text, potentially at the centre of early British Christianity and its influence on the Continent. The landscape of that Christianity is gradually emerging from the shadows and it is a landscape in which the career of St Samson, the first Insular peregrinus, is shown to be of considerable importance. LYNETTE OLSON is an Honorary Associate of the Department of History, University of Sydney. Contributors: Caroline Brett, Karen Jankulak, Constant J. Mews, Lynette Olson, Joseph-Claude Poulin, Richard Sowerby, Ian N. Wood, Jonathan M. Wooding.Trade Review[A] very interesting collection. * HEREDITAS NEXUS *This volume advances scholarship on VIS and will prompt further study; anyone interested in the early medieval history of Brittany or the wider Insular milieu will find it valuable. -- Ali Bonner * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Getting Somewhere' with the First Life of St Samson of Dol - Lynette Olson A Family and its Saint in the Vita prima Samsonis - Richard Sowerby La circulation de l'information dans la Vie ancienne de s. Samson de Dol et la question de sa datation - Joseph-Claude Poulin The Hare and the Tortoise? Vita Prima Sancti Samsonis, Vita Paterni and Merovingian Hagiography - Caroline Brett Columbanus, the Britons and the Merovingian Church - Ian Nicholas Wood Apostolic Authority and Celtic Liturgies: from the Vita Samsonis to the Ratio de cursus - Constant J Mews The Representation of Early British Monasticism and Peregrinatio in Vita Prima S. Samsonis - Jonathan M Wooding Present and yet Absent: the Cult of St Samson of Dol in Wales - Karen Jankulak Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Haskins Society Journal 28: 2016. Studies in
Book SynopsisFruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The contributions in this volume illuminate critical aspects of the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds - and more. Essays consider the complexities of the Norman administration in North Africa, the Canterbury primacy controversy through the lens of the relics of St Ouen, and the meanings of natura and divinitas in the works of Bernardus Silvestris. Additional chapters explore cross-cultural definitions of masculinity articulated through the biblical figure of David, the social networks and monastic patronage of the female lords of Braine, and the links between legal classifications of adultery and thirteenth-century fabliaux. The Journal continues its focuson source criticism with explorations of two Italian sources -- a Miscellany from the Piedmontese monastery of Novalesa and an overlooked Venetian source for Byzantine imperial history. A re-assessment of the legal and judicial activities of King Henry I rounds out the volume. Contributors: JASON BAXTER, LUIGI ANDREA BERTO, APRIL HARPER, JOHN HUDSON, RUTH MAZO KARRAS, MATT KING, BRIDGET K. RILEY, EDWARD M. SCHOOLMAN, YVONNE SEALE.Table of ContentsUnder the 'Romans' or under the Franks? Venice between two Empires - Luigi Andrea Berto Lost and found: Eadmer's De reliquiis Sancti Audoeni as a cross channel solution to the Canterbury-York Dispute - Bridget K. Riley Of Lost Libraries and Monastic Memories: Creating the Eleventh-Century Novalesa Miscellany - Edward M. Schoolman The Place of Henry I in English Legal History - John Hudson 'Goliath thought David Rather Boastful': Royal Masculinity in Kingless Societies - Ruth Karras Well-Behaved Women? Agnès of Baudement and Agnès of Braine as Female Lords and Patrons of the Premonstratensian Order - Yvonne Seale 'Videmus Nunc per Speculum': The Mysticism and Naturalism of the Twelfth-Century Imago Mundi - Jason Baxter The Norman Kings of Africa? - Matthew King Punishing Adultery: Private Violence, Public Honour, Literature and the Law - April Harper
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