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Harley manuscript geographies: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Autor Daniel Birkholz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2020
This study applies the methodologies of literary geography to the unique contents of a codex known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced in provincial Herefordshire by a scribe whose literary generation was wiped out in the Black Death of 1348-51. It contains a diverse set of writings: love-lyrics and devotional texts, political songs and fabliaux, saints' lives, courtesy literature, bible narratives, travelogues, and more. These works alternate between languages-Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin-but have been placed in mutually illuminating conversation. Despite its significance as a record of an in-between period of literary history, stretching from the Norman Conquest to the plague era, Harley 2253 has never before been the subject of a monographic study. Harley manuscript geographies orients readers to this compelling material by describing the phenomenon of the medieval miscellany in textual and codicological terms. It explores how this fragmentary work keeps being sutured into 'whole'-ness by commentary upon it, while examining the different genres, topics, and social groupings it contains. Ultimately, the book lays the groundwork for approaching this compilation via the interpretive lens that cultural geography provides. Readers from literary history, medieval studies, cultural geography, gender studies, Jewish studies, book history, and more, will profit from the encounter.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526140401
ISBN-10: 1526140403
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Colecția Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Seria Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture


Notă biografică

Daniel Birkholz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin

Cuprins

Introduction: Harley manuscript geographies 1 Harley lyrics and Hereford clerics: the implications of mobility 2 Captives among us: Harley 2253 and the Jews of medieval Hereford 3 Histoire imparfaite: the counterfactual lessons of Gilote et Johane 4 Dying with Harley 2253: last lyric things Epilogue: ye goon to...Hereford? Regional devotion and England's other St Thomas Appendix: Harley Manuscript contents Index

Descriere

This first-ever monograph on the celebrated medieval miscellany Harley 2253 (c. 1340) uses methods derived from cultural geography to revise prevailing understandings of English literary history. The Harley manuscript's extraordinary diversity of texts has a counterpart in the monograph's topical range and flexibility of approach. -- .