Worlds Made Flesh: Chronicle Histories and Medieval Manuscript - Culture

Informationen zum Autor Lauryn Mayer received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She currently teaches in the Department of English at Washington and Jefferson College. Klappentext This book focuses on the use of the past in two senses. First, it looks at the way in which medieval texts from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries discussed the past: how they presented history, what kinds of historical narratives they employed, and what anxieties gathered around the practice of historiography. Second, this study examines twentieth-century interactions with this textual past, and the problems that have arisen for critics trying to negotiate this radically different textual culture. Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue with contemporaneous canonical works such as Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, the Morte Darthur, Beowulf, and The Battle of Maldon. Zusammenfassung Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations Chapter One: The Metrical Chronicle Family and Manuscript Practice Chapter Two: The Manuscript Challenge to Ideas of Medieval Nationalism Chapter Three: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Comforts of Heroic Poetry Chapter Four: Caxton, Chaucer, and the Creation of an Auctor Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Mayer, Lauryn Mayer, Lauryn S. Mayer, Mayer Mayer
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2004
• EAN: 9780415970600
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97060-0
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in Medieval History an; Studies in Medieval History and Culture; Studies in Medieval History an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism