Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature #: Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature #: Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages
Christopher Young, Mark Chinca
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How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regions and languages of medieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with the established literary cultures of Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic, the volume' s contributors describe the processes of emergence, consolidation, and institutionalization that make it possible to speak of a literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomena through the lens of later, national developments; the result is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language, literature, and territory in the space we call ' Europe' .

Afterlife of St Cuthbert, The: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500
Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation
Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts
Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing
From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages
Landscape in Middle English Romance: The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World
Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages
Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy
Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions
Myth of Piers Plowman, The: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive
Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet
'Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought
Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period
Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England 1250-1350

Mark Chinca is a Reader in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. His publications span medieval romance, lyric, chronicle, and religious literature. His most recent book is Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern European Devotional Writing from Bonaventure to Luther (2020). Christopher Young is Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, has published widely on medieval culture and the history of modern sport, and most recently held an Honorary Fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg, Munich.
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ISBN-13: 9781108477642
Published: 31 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 330

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