Harley Manuscript Geographies - Literary History and the Medieval Miscellany

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Birkholz, Daniel (Associate Professor of English) Birkholz, Birkholz Daniel
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781526140401
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4040-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval