{"product_id":"harley-manuscript-geographies-literary-history-and-the-medieval-miscellany-9781526140401","title":"Harley Manuscript Geographies: Literary History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced upon England’s Welsh March, by a scribe whose generation died in the Black Death. It contains a diverse set of writings: love-lyrics and devotional literature, political songs and fabliaux, saints’ lives, courtesy texts, bible stories and travelogues. These works alternate between languages (Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Latin) but operate in conversation with one another. The introduction explores how this fragmentary miscellany keeps being sutured into 'whole'-ness by commentary upon it. Individual chapters examine different genres and social groupings and demonstrate that there are many Harley landscapes still waiting to be discovered. It will be of great value to those studying literary history, medieval studies, cultural geography, gender studies, Jewish studies and book history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'...is unquestionably timely and often stimulating… At its best, \u003ci\u003eHarley Manuscript Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us to investigate the experiences, contributions and desires of multilingual readers who brought to this manuscript and others their imaginations and expectations, both social and literary.'\u003cbr\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'... this book will hold much appeal for Middle English scholars with a thirst for theoretically challenging approaches.'\u003cbr\u003eSpeculum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Harley Manuscript Geographies is a virtuoso display of writing, as well as of critical acumen and probing, nuanced readings of texts that have not generally been subjected to such critical subtleties before.'\u003cbr\u003eStudies in the Age of Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There are some welcome moves in this book, including the review of the Jewish presence and absence, the enthusiasm for the Harley lyrics, and the reflections on plague that are both timely and untimely. Generous quotation from the texts and helpful translations will valuably support student readers.'\u003cbr\u003eThe Journal of British Studies\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Harley manuscript geographies                                                                 \u003cbr\u003e1 Harley lyrics and Hereford clerics: the implications of mobility                                     \u003cbr\u003e2 Captives among us: Harley 2253 and the Jews of medieval Hereford                     \u003cbr\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eHistoire imparfaite\u003c\/i\u003e: the counterfactual lessons of \u003ci\u003eGilote et Johane                        \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Dying with Harley 2253: last lyric things \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: ye goon to…Hereford? Regional devotion and England’s \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e St Thomas \u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Harley Manuscript contents\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041002258775,"sku":"9781526140401","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526140401.jpg?v=1750948565","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/harley-manuscript-geographies-literary-history-and-the-medieval-miscellany-9781526140401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}