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Book SynopsisAn invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies New Medieval Literatures - now published by Boydell and Brewer - is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces both the British Isles and Europe. Topics in this volume include the political ecology of Havelok the Dane: Thomas Hoccleve and the making of "Chaucer"; and Britain and the Welsh Marches in Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Contributors: Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans, Marcel Elias, PhilipKnox, Sebastian Langdell, Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt, George Younge.
Table of ContentsThe Book of the World at an Anglo-Norman Court: The Bestiaire de Philippe de Thaon as a Theological Performance - Jonathan Morton Monks, Money, and the End of Old English - George Younge Sustainability Romance: Havelok the Dane's Political Ecology - Alexis Kellner Becker Locating the Border: Britain and the Welsh Marches in Fouke le Fitz Waryn - Emily Dolmans From disputatio to predicatio and back again: Dialectic, Authority and Epistemology between the Roman de la Rose and the Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine - Marco Nievergelt Mixed Feelings in the Middle English Charlemagne Romances: Emotional Reconfiguration and the Failures of Crusading Practices in the Otuel Texts - Marcel Elias Circularity and Linearity: The Idea of the Lyric and the Idea of the Book in the Cent Ballades of Jean le Seneschal - Philip Knox 'What Shal I Calle Thee? What Is Thy Name?': Thomas Hoccleve and the making of 'Chaucer' - Sebastian Langdell
