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'Medieval Cultural History' celebrates the 65th birthday of Professor Stephen Knight. The book pays tribute to Professor Knight's pioneering work by reporting and reflecting on recent developments in the area of Medieval Cultural Studies, especially the Robin Hood tradition, Chaucer, romance, and medievalist crime fiction.
Dream City Cinema turns the clock back, speeds up time or freezes it. Life is viewed through a wide-angle lens, the edges distorted, the images often hallucinatory, but the bewildered figures at the heart of the landscape are sharply focussed and always recognisable. With techniques ranging from montage to the villanelle, Knight's poems are both playful and touching in their exploration of mortality and faith in a chaotic world. This second collection includes 'The Mermaid Tank', winner of the National Poetry Competition. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores: The influence of medieval cultural concepts on literature and film, including key authors such as Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Mark Twain The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as Dante, King Arthur, and Robin Hood The influence of the medieval on such varied disciplines such as politics, music, children’s literature, and art. Contemporary efforts to relive the Middle Ages. Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the medieval period through to the twenty-first century.
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The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. In this classic, controversial expose, Stephen Knight talks to the men on the inside - those who have broken their vow of secrecy to reveal the darker side of the 'brotherhood'. Fully updated with a new introduction by Martin Short."
The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods. Divided into three parts, the text examines the historical records of real outlawed men and women and the representation of Jews in medieval Britain as possible outlaws, outlaws associated specifically with Wales, and the popular figure of Robin Hood and the context of the late medieval poems and plays that feature him as a prominent figure.
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