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Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain
This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in Medieval Britain based on literary and historical sources from the seventh to the 15th centuries. It devotes much attention to family structures and to the legal and social aspects of inheritance.
The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-speaking World
Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day.
Layamon's Brut and Other Medieval Chronicles
"Layamon's Brut" long remained unstudied. In the past two decades several translations of this long chronicle have been released both in English, French and Italian while substantial scholarly and critical work has been done on a great many aspects of the work. The present volume contains fourteen essays, most of which were papers given at the 7th international Layamon's conference held at the Sorbonne in Paris in June 2012.
Le Brut moyen-anglais en prose
Le Brut moyen-anglais en prose (version commune des origines a 1333). Traduction francaise de Marie-Francoise Alamichel Pres de 200 manuscrits du Brut en prose moyen anglais nous sont parvenus soulignant ainsi l'extraordinaire popularite de cette oeuvre. Le present ouvrage est la traduction francaise de sa premiere partie qui s'acheve en 1333 avec la bataille de Halidon Hill. Elle est accompagnee de la reprise de l'edition du texte d'origine par F. Brie pour l'EETS. Une longue introduction, une cinquantaine de pages de notes et un double index viennent completer le volume. L'ouvrage sera utile aux historiens qui trouveront ce que les Anglais des XIVe et XVe siecles avaient choisi de retenir de leur passe national. Les litteraires pourront s'attarder sur les moyens rhetoriques et de propagande de ce recit engage. Le plus grand public, enfin, decouvrira un recit aux multiples facettes qui montre que la constructionde l'identite nationale anglaise reposait a la fois sur l'Histoire et l'imaginaire - mythes troyens et arthuriens, propheties de Merlin, miracles chretiens. Ce melange fait tout l'interet de ce texte fondamental de l'Angleterre medievale.
New Medieval Literatures 22
New Medieval Literatures 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 the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Book jacket.
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.
The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen
The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction. Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which can consist of an indeterminate space of ontological instability, a zone in which real and unreal converge to destabilize the realist text, as in Egg Dancing (1995) and TheNinth Life of Louis Drax (2004). In other novels the otherworld relies on defamiliarization: thus in War Crimes for the Home ...
Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North
A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature.
Chaucer's Afterlife
This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling involves a variety of functions but Chaucer's primary association is with the idea of pilgrimage and the prevailing tenor is populist satire. The target is not only cultural elitism but also the dominant discourse of professional Chaucerians. Academics in turn may have doubts about the value of popular Chaucer; popular culture theory, however, would maintain that such skepticism has less to do with critical discrimination than the assertion of social distinction. Nonetheless, the fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality.
