New Medieval Literatures: Volume II

by Rita Copeland (Editor), David Lawton (Editor), Wendy Scase (Editor)

Overview

New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings, in addition to exemplification of work on earlier periods. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198184768
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/10/1998
Series:	New Medieval Literatures , #2
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1630L (what's this?)

About the Author

Rita Copeland is Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania David Lawton is Professor of English Literature, Washington University, St Louis Wendy Scase is Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Gender, Space, Reading Histories, Rita Copeland1. The Spectral Jew, Steven F. Kruger2. Unmanned Men and Eunuchs of God: Peter Damian's Liber Gomorrhianus and the Sexual Politics of Papal Reform, Larry Scanlon3. Bel Acueil and the Improper Allegory of the Romance of the Rose, Simon Gaunt4. States of Siege: Violence, Place, Gender, Paris around 1400, Helen Solterer5. Metonymy, Montage, and Death in François Villon's Testament, Jane H. M. Taylor6. Maytime in Late Medieval Courts, Susan Crane7. The Trouble with Harold: The Ideological Context of the Vita Haroldi, Robert Stein8. Eliding the Interpreter: John Wyclif and Scriptural Truth, Kantik Ghosh9. ‘Strange and Wonderful Bills': Bill-casting and Political Discourse in Late Medieval England, Wendy Scase10. Analytical Survey II: ‘We are Not Alone: Psychoanalytical Medievalism', Louise O. FradenburgIndex