Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound and the Art of Listening
1st Edition
By Christine Neufeld
June 30, 2021
Arguing that women’s "silencing" is in part the result of women’s voices being treated as the white noise of history, Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English ...
Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies
1st Edition
By Brooke Hunter
June 30, 2021
Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius (d. 524). Tracing the medieval popularity of De disciplina’s reimagined vision of Boethius alongside the ...
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Albrecht Classen
March 31, 2021
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In contrast to previous approaches, this volume identifies new methods of interpreting conventional ...
Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film
1st Edition
By Kathleen Forni
September 30, 2020
Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and ...
Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur
1st Edition
By Tory Pearman
September 30, 2020
This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. ...
From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Gerzic, Aidan Norrie
September 30, 2020
From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular ...
Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature
1st Edition
By Emily Butler
September 30, 2020
This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving through the eighth century to the thirteenth century, and finally to the sixteenth-century antiquarians who ...
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition
1st Edition
By Martin Marafioti
September 30, 2020
Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a healing tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. In this study, Giovanni Boccaccio's ...
Zöopedagogies: Creatures as Teachers in Middle English Romance
1st Edition
By Bonnie J. Erwin
September 30, 2020
The human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress. They are learners, taught by an unexpected set of teachers: non-human animals including horses, hawks, lions, and the various quarry of the hunt. These "creature teachers" show humans how to be more perfectly human—how to love, fight...
Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance: Normans and Saxons
1st Edition
By Dominique Battles
December 10, 2019
This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances including King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Sir ...
Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine
1st Edition
By Martha Bayless
December 10, 2019
This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as ...
The Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
1st Edition
By Jane Beal
December 10, 2019
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of ...