{"product_id":"memory-and-identity-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-world-9781788744706","title":"Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn both past and modern societies the concepts of memory and identity have been inextricably intertwined. Memory, through its power of recollection and reflection, is perceived as a central and necessary pathway for self-discovery, self-expression, and self-knowledge crucial to an understanding of the physical and spiritual world. Memory, in this way, becomes fundamental to identity itself, as it is through the complex process of both group and individual recollection and commemoration that cultural, political, national, religious, and gender identities are not only imagined but constructed, reconstructed, and represented.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking as its focus this complex interplay of memory and identity in the medieval and early modern European context, this volume of essays presents its findings under five thematic headings: ««The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity», «Cultural Memory and National Identities», «Emotional Identities», «\u003ci\u003eNota Bene\u003c\/i\u003e: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction» and «Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England». Contributions examine constructions of memory and identity in such key works as the \u003ci\u003eOld English Soliloquies\u003c\/i\u003e; the Old Norse kings’ sagas \u003ci\u003eMorkinskinna \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeimskringla; \u003c\/i\u003emedieval Serbian hagiographies; \u003ci\u003eHavelok the Dane\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e; Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eBook of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAdam Scriveyn\u003c\/i\u003e; Elizabethan translations of the Psalms; John Stearne’s \u003ci\u003eConfirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e; seventeenth-century portraiture. The research presented here offers valuable insights into the centrality of memory to medieval and early modern constructions of political, religious, and national identities and points up future avenues for scholarly investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e«Irony and its translation have long been raising complex questions. Hence, studies on this topic are welcome. Alícia Moreno Giménez’s most interesting work undertakes a thorough analysis of the different linguistic and pragmatic aspects involved in the communication of irony and its translation in literary works.»  (María Ángeles Ruiz Moneva, Universidad de Zaragoza)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity – John Scattergood:\u003ci\u003e Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e: Story- Telling, Memory and «Trouthe» – Natalie Hanna: Chaucer’s Worthiest Knight: Heroic Identity in \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde \u003c\/i\u003e– Cultural Memory and National Identities – Marta Miller: Negotiating the Memory of Kings and Icelandic Identity: The Ideological Complexity of \u003ci\u003eMorkinskinna \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeimskringla \u003c\/i\u003e– Aleksandar Z. Savić: «A Most Splendent Path to Jerusalem»: Remembering the Holy Land in Medieval Serbian Hagiography (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century) – Michael Knudson: Where Fact Meets Fiction: The Scandinavian Historical Roots of the Middle English Romance \u003ci\u003eHavelok the Dane \u003c\/i\u003e– Emotional Identities – Lucie Kaempfer: The Memory of Joy in \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e: Identity and Emotional Temporality – Gerald Morgan: An Aristotelian Ideal: The Beauty and Virtue of Blanche of Lancaster in Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eBook of the Duchess \u003c\/i\u003e(c. 1368) – Scott Eaton: Confessions of a Witch- Finder: Fear and Desire in John Stearne’s \u003ci\u003eA Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft \u003c\/i\u003e– \u003ci\u003eNota Bene\u003c\/i\u003e: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction – Sumner Braund: Meditations for a King? King Alfred, His Memory and the \u003ci\u003eOld English Soliloquies \u003c\/i\u003e– Seamus Dwyer: Scraping, Scribing and Shriving: The Language of Writing, Judgement and Penitence in Chaucer’s «Adam Scriveyn» – Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England – Rosemary Keep: Ribbons and Righteousness: Memory and Multiple Identity in the Portrait of a Preston Haberdasher and His Family – Catherine R. Evans: \u003ci\u003eMetanoia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMiserere Mei Deus\u003c\/i\u003e: Penitential Memory in Anne Lock and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Translations of Psalm 51.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042518892887,"sku":"9781788744706","price":43.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788744706.jpg?v=1750954485","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memory-and-identity-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-world-9781788744706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}