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Book SynopsisStudies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day.The eleven essays in this volume are studies of specific instances of the influence and impact of the middle ages on Western life and culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. They cover a wide range of topics -literature, stylistics, lexicography, art, the cinema, philosophy, history and myth-making, oral traditions, feminist issues - and reflect the enduring influence of the middle ages on European art and life. Dr MARIE-FRANÇOISE ALAMICHEL is lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; the late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cambridge. Contributors: CLAIRE VIAL, DERICK S. THOMSON, KEES DEKKER, ERIC G. STANLEY, FLORENCE BOURGNE, RENATE HAAS, DEREK BREWER, LAURA KENDRICK, RENÉ GALLET, JAMES NOBLE, SANDRA GORGIEVSKI.
Table of ContentsFrom Written Record to Legend: the Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne as re-telling of the Morte D'Arthur. - Claire Vial Influences of medieval thinking on the Gaelic world in Scotland, sixteenth-century and later. - Derick S. Thomson Jan van Vliet (1620-1666) and the Study of Old English in the Low Countries. - Kees Dekker The Early Middle Ages = The Dark Ages = The Heroic Age of England and in English. - Eric G. Stanley Medieval mirrors and later vanitas paintings. - Florence Bourgne The Old Wives' Tale and Dryden. - Renate Haas Modernising the Medieval: Eighteenth-century Translations of Chaucer. - Derek S Brewer The American Middle Ages: Eighteenth-century saxonist myth- making. - Laura Kendrick Coleridge, Scholasticism, and German Idealism. - René Gallet The Mists of Avalon: A Confused Assault on Patriarchy - James Noble The Arthurian legend in the cinema: myth or history? - Sandra Gorgievski
