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New Medieval Literatures 25
Edited by Laura Ashe, Edited by Philip Knox, Edited by Caroline Batten, Edited by Professor Wendy Scase, Contributions by Amanda J Gerber, Contributions by Elaine Treharne, Contributions by Holly James-Maddocks, Contributions by Linnet Heald, Contributions by Mateusz Fafinski, Contributions by Megan Renz Perry
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This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the best new work in the field. Essays in this volume deal with texts from the ninth to the fifteenth century and include some unexpected comparisons with British Romanticism. Great attention is paid to manuscripts in their contexts and situations of production: thirteenth-century mortuary rolls are examined as sites of fluidly variegated scribal training and practice, revealing a ""scriptscape"" of social networks spread across the country. Elsewhere, close analysis of manuscripts known to have belonged to Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich (1370-1406) makes the case for an effective scribal atelier in the city, presided over by the ""Despenser Master"". Three essays are linked by a consideration of didactic writing: the Old English translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care is analysed both textually and paleographically for what it reveals about grammatical study in England's early Middle Ages, and the moral freighting of that learning; a comparative analysis of multilingual retellings of sheep fables making an important contribution to animal studies; and recent, violent historical events are shown to have been reshaped into a parable for the instruction of wives in the Mesnagier de Paris. Finally, Gower's expansive geographical and genealogical imaginary in the Confessio Amantis reveals the impossibility of controlling the affordances of his multivalent ""East""; while the Alliterative Morte Arthur is newly examined for its representation of mountains and mountaineering as sites of active moral allegory and spiritual importance, as well as real-world experiences of beauty and danger.
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Published date | 15 Apr 2025
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Pages | 250
Dimensions | 216 x 138 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 666g
ISBN | 978-1-8438-4741-0
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