{"product_id":"bestsellers-and-masterpieces-the-changing-medieval-canon-9781526147486","title":"Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are taught and studied with far less frequency. The book provides cross-cultural insight into both the literary tastes of the medieval period and the literary and political forces behind the creation of the ‘modern canon’ of medieval literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The essays [...] invite the reader to consider the pre-modern and modern cultural milieu that led to specific works’ genesis and, centuries later, privileged position in the canon and to consider a place for once widely-transmitted works that have since been marginalized—two intellectual ventures that will undoubtedly enhance scholarship and undergraduate curricula.'  \u003ci\u003eArthuriana\u003c\/i\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction - Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Hanging by a thread: unique manuscripts and their place in the ‘modern’ medieval\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ecanon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Contemplating books with Usama ibn Munqidh’s \u003ci\u003eBook of Contemplation\u003c\/i\u003e – Paul M. Cobb\u003cbr\u003e2. Dons and dragons: \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and ‘popular reading’ – Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver\u003cbr\u003e3. Ibn ?azm’s \u003ci\u003e?awq al-?amama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) \u003c\/i\u003e– Boris Liebrenz\u003cbr\u003e4. 'Thirty pieces of silver': interpreting anti-Jewish imagery in the \u003ci\u003ePoema de mio Cid\u003c\/i\u003e manuscript – Ryan D. Giles\u003cbr\u003e5. ‘Let no bad song be sung of us’: fame, memory and transmission in\/and the \u003ci\u003eChanson de Roland\u003c\/i\u003e – Sharon Kinoshita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Medieval bestsellers: reading the ‘medieval canon’?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. World literature and its discontents: reading the life of A?iqar – Daniel L. Selden\u003cbr\u003e7. The Alexander Romance in the age of scribal reproduction: the aesthetics and precariousness of a popular text – Shamma Boyarin\u003cbr\u003e8. Wisdom literature and the medieval bestsellers – Karla Mallette\u003cbr\u003e9. Lost worlds: encyclopedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud\/Theodor – Christine Chism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041011106135,"sku":"9781526147486","price":63.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526147486.jpg?v=1750948588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bestsellers-and-masterpieces-the-changing-medieval-canon-9781526147486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}