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Journal articles on the topic "English literature Literature, Medieval English literature Literature, Medieval"

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Fox, S. "Medieval Literature 1300-1500." English 64, no. 244 (2014): 71–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efu030.

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Bray, Dorothy. "Medieval Literature at McGill." Florilegium 20, no. 1 (2003): 114–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.20.033.

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The Department of English at McGill University has recently lost two of its medievalists, one to early retirement and one to another institution (a decision made largely for personal reasons), and for several years has had no specialist in medieval drama. The Department now has only two full-time medievalists, with the result that its offerings in medieval literature have fallen off somewhat. A few years ago, the Department also made the effort to change all its courses to 3-credits. The 6-credit introductory course in Old English thereby fell away, as did student interest. However, we have managed to keep an Old English course going at the upper level, and a new, 300-level, 3-credit Introduction to Old English is being offered next year, in the hopes of being able to offer both the introductory course in Old English and the upper-level course as a follow-up. The Department over the past few years has maintained its offerings in Chaucer, as well as in other medieval topics (gender, religion, folklore, Arthurian tradition, and literary theory); this year we were able to put on Chaucer at both the undergraduate and graduate level, an Old English undergraduate course, and two upper-level undergraduate courses in Middle English literature (on allegory and on romance). We have approval to advertise for a position in Late Medieval/Early Renaissance, which we hope we will be able to fill next year. The Department now has a very strong Renaissance studies component (especially in Shakespeare), and we are hoping to boost our medieval offerings by creating a bridge with the Renaissance.

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Delany, Sheila. "English 380: Literature in Translation: Medieval Jewish Literature; Studies in medieval culture." Florilegium 20, no. 1 (2003): 201–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.20.047.

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Jewish culture has a continuous existence of nearly three millennia. This course isolates a small portion of it to read, in translation, work composed during the Middle Ages by authors from several countries and in several genres: parable and fantasy, lyric and lament, polemic, marriage manual, romance. Some of our material has not been translated into English before and is not yet available in print. We are fortunate to have brand-new pre-print copies of Meir of Norwich and especially of the famous Yiddish romance the Bovo-buch (in the course-pack)—an early modern version of a widely-read (non-Jewish) medieval text. Primary texts will be supplemented by scholarly books on which each student will offer a short class presentation.

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Schendl, Herbert. "Code-switching in early English literature." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 24, no. 3 (2015): 233–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947015585245.

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Code-switching has been a frequent feature of literary texts from the beginning of English literary tradition to the present time. The medieval period, in particular, with its complex multilingual situation, has provided a fruitful background for multilingual texts, and will be the focus of the present article. After looking at the linguistic background of the period and some specifics of medieval literature and of historical code-switching, the article discusses the main functions of code-switching in medieval poetry and drama, especially in regard to the different but changing status of the three main languages of literacy: Latin, French and English. This functional-pragmatic approach is complemented by a section on syntactic aspects of medieval literary code-switching, which also contains a brief comparison with modern spoken code-switching and shows some important similarities and differences between the two sets of data.

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Santos, Dulce O. Amarante dos. "The surgeon in medieval English literature." Revista Brasileira de História 29, no. 57 (2009): 225–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-01882009000100011.

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Breeze, Andrew, Heather Blurton, and Valerie Allen. "Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature." Modern Language Review 103, no. 4 (2008): 1101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20468044.

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Burrow, J. A. "DOUGLAS GRAY, Later Medieval English Literature." Notes and Queries 56, no. 4 (2009): 644–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjp168.

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Womack, Peter. "The Sea and Medieval English Literature." English Studies 91, no. 3 (2010): 344–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138381003648069.

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Archibald, E. "The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English." English 62, no. 238 (2013): 339–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/eft036.

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Ortwig, D. S., and David Wallace. "The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature." Sixteenth Century Journal 34, no. 4 (2003): 1160. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20061680.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "English literature Literature, Medieval English literature Literature, Medieval"

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Malo, Roberta. "Saints' relics in medieval English literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186329116.

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Citrome, Jeremy J. "The surgeon in medieval English literature /." New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41014151z.

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Jose, Laura. "Madness and gender in late-medieval English literature." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/217/.

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This thesis discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these presentations are affected by (and effect) ideas of gender. It includes a discussion of madness as it is commonly presented in classical literature and medical texts, as well as an examination of demonic possession (which shares many of the same characteristics of madness) in medieval exempla. These chapters are followed by a detailed look at the uses of madness in Malory’s Morte Darthur, Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and in two autobiographical accounts of madness, the Book of Margery Kempe and Hoccleve’s Series. The experience of madness can both subvert and reinforce gender roles. Madness is commonly seen as an invasion of the self, which, in a culture which commonly identifies masculinity with bodily intactness, can prove problematic for male sufferers. Equally, madness, in prompting violent, ungoverned behaviour, can undermine traditional definitions of femininity. These rules can, however, be reversed. Malory’s Morte Darthur presents a version of masculinity which is actually enhanced by madness; equally divergent is Margery Kempe’s largely positive account of madness as a catalyst for personal transformation. While there is a certain consistency in the literary treatment of madness – motifs and images are repeated across genres – the way in which these images are used can alter radically. There is no single model of madness in medieval literature: rather, it is always fluid. Madness, like gender, remains open to interpretation.

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Fleming, Carolyn Evine Mary Elizabeth. "Ideas of the self in Medieval English literature." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328079.

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Semper, Philippa Judith. "Diagrams in English medieval manuscripts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261166.

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This thesis examines diagrams found in English medieval manuscripts dating from the ninth to the fourteenth century. It is based upon a survey of diagrammatic material, the results of which are presented in the catalogue raisonnee (Appendix A). The lack of adequate terms to define diagrams is addressed, as is the lack of a consistent and coherent treatment of diagrams in existing literature. A close critique of diagrams can be an aid in dating manuscripts and tracing textual recensions, and therefore a well-defined yet flexible framework must be established in order to further future research. The catalogue establishes standard types for particular diagrams, which can be used for comparison and identification of examples in manuscripts. The discussion of the thesis is largely structured on a chronological basis, studying the types of diagrams which were in use in three periods; late Antiquity, the Dark Ages, and the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. The main diagrammatic forms which were transmitted from late classical commentaries in medieval manuscripts are analysed in terms of their content and technique. These diagrams are still influenced by Greek learning. Changes and adaptations in these forms and techniques are then observed. The degeneracy of learning in the Dark Ages is characterised by diagrams based on cyclical rather than circular forms. The availability of translations of Greek texts through Arab sources in the twelfth century leads again to precise diagrams which accompany logical textual exposition. Diagrams are finally viewed within the wider context of medieval art. Features of medieval aesthetics are highlighted which make it possible to approach diagrams in the same way as works of art. The importance of geometric structures to artistic composition is increased by the symbolic meanings which are attached to certain shapes and proportions. Pictorial diagrams themselves migrate into wall-paintings and floor-mosaics, and also eventually into literature

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Bradley, James Lyons. "Legendary metal smiths and early English literature." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/615/.

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'Legendary Metal Smiths and Early English Literature' is a study of Christian religious influence on the portrayal of a powerful technology, metallurgy, in Old English verse. Starting from the controversy over the supernatural role of metal smiths in a metrical Anglo-Saxon charm, it proceeds to explore the impact of Christian thought on attitudes to the metal-worker in late antiquity and early medieval Europe. Significant and contentious characterizations of the smith in the Cain legend, the lives of the saints, and legends of Christ are discussed in turn. A chapter on heroic verse and another on wonder-working discuss, among other topics, the theory that Anglo-Saxon metal smiths were regarded with fear and superstition. The thesis put forth by the author in the course of this survey is that the critical approach which explains the concern of Anglo-Saxon literature with smithcraft as little more than an irrational primitivism finds little support in the religious writing of the period. What requires explanation is not the view that metallurgy was a matter of Christian concern, but the assumption that it was not. While this study is primarily concerned with mapping literary themes, it is not confined to the world of the imagination. Holding that themes, in order to be appreciated, must be perceived, where possible, in the light of the historical conditions in which they flourished, it devotes part of its space to a consideration of the latter. It examines the role of the monastic movement in disseminating an idealistic view of industry; describes the achievements of Anglo-Saxon metal-working; and attempts to appreciate some of the real hardships faced by workers in the Anglo-Saxon forge. The insights gained from this approach lead ultimately to a new reading of the metrical Anglo-Saxon charm with which the study began, a reading which, rather than peering backwards into the pagan past, looks forward to subsequent and more familiar examples of the forge in literature.

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Keating, Lise Manda. "Religious propaganda in selected Anglo-Saxton literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17868.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This study of selected Old English texts, from the canons of Aelfric and Cynewulf, presents the argument that the primary purpose of the Saints' Lives in question is that of instruments of persuasion. After a description of the rites of Anglo-Saxon paganism, an attempt is made to outline the manner in which the Christian missionaries used certain aspects of pagan belief to promote Christianity. As such, these texts may therefore be viewed as religious propaganda in the Anglo- Saxon Church's attempt to win new converts to Christianity and to strengthen the faith of those already within its fold, firstly by promoting belief in the miraculous and secondly by investing Anglo-Saxon Christianity with the supernatural powers of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Pagan religions. Although the works of Cynewulf predate those of Aelfric, I have chosen to discuss the prose works of Aelfric first. However, I do not believe that reversing the historical order invalidates the argument.

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Belcher, Wendy Laura. "Discursive possession Ethiopian discourse in medieval European and eighteenth-century English literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619156921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Oswald, Dana M. "Indecent bodies gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1116868190.

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Mann, Erin Irene. "Relative identities: father-daughter incest in Medieval English religious literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4873.

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Medieval tales of father-daughter incest depict more than offensively dominant fathers and voiceless, victimized young women: these stories often contain moments of surprising counternarrative. My analysis of incest narratives foregrounds striking instances of feminine resistance, where daughters act independently, speak unrestrainedly, adopt masculine behaviors, and invert masculine gazes. I argue that daughters of incestuous fathers participate in a complex back-and-forth of attraction and rejection that thrusts the fraught nature of the incest into sharp relief, revealing the ways in which medieval families--as well as the medieval church and state--constructed and deconstructed identities and sexualities. Extending Judith Butler's insights on how incest tales interrogate state and kinship networks, I show how the liminal position of daughters in the family destabilizes the sex/gender system as it functioned in both the family and the larger world, secular and sacred. My dissertation thus relocates daughters from the periphery to the center of the medieval family. Christian thematics likewise provide a key framework for both my argument and medieval audiences: biblical translations and retellings, saints' lives, and moral exempla offered familiar points of reference. By revealing how authors and artists employed well-known religious stories to impart political readings of sexuality and of the family, the four chapters of my dissertation assert daughters' key role in medieval Christian culture. I examine both Anglo-Saxon texts--the biblical epic Genesis A and the prose Life of Euphrosyne--as well as the late medieval poem Cursor mundi and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale. My readings are enhanced by recourse to the medieval visual record offered by three manuscripts that illustrate the Lot story--British Library MS Cotton Claudius B.iv, the Old English Hexateuch, and Oxford Bodleian Library MSS Junius 11(the Genesis A manuscript) and Bodley 270b, a Biblé moralisée. Artistic renderings of father-daughter incest are no less unsettled than their literary counterparts, and demonstrate that the position of daughters was so fundamentally unstable that it often varied not only within an era, but also within a single manuscript. I argue that authors and artists radically reimagined the fundamental texts of the Middle Ages, including the Old Testament, to establish new narratives of sin and salvation, self and other, and power and submission.

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Books on the topic "English literature Literature, Medieval English literature Literature, Medieval"

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Fannon, Beatrice, ed. Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1.

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Maddern, Carole. Medieval literature. Longman, 2010.

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Maddern, Carole. Medieval literature. Longman, 2010.

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Later medieval English literature. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Douglas, Gray. Later medieval English literature. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Medieval English literature: An introduction. Blackwell Pub., 2007.

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Courtnay, Konshuh, ed. Medieval English: Literature and Language. 4th ed. Narr, 2008.

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Medieval literature, 1300-1500. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

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Antimercantilism in late medieval English literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Colonial Ireland in medieval English literature. Susquehanna University Press, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "English literature Literature, Medieval English literature Literature, Medieval"

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Fannon, Beatrice. "Introduction: Reading Medieval English Literature." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_1.

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Rainsford, Dominic. "Medieval and early modern." In Literature in English. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429277399-8.

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Hines, John. "The Ownership of Literature: Reading Medieval Literature in its Historical Context." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_2.

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White, R. S. "Medieval Pacifism." In Pacifism and English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583641_5.

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Allen, Valerie. "Chaucer and the Poetics of Gold." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_10.

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Fannon, Beatrice. "The Torment of the Cross: Perspectives on the Crucifixion in Medieval Lyric and Drama." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_11.

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Batt, Catherine. "Encountering Piers Plowman." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_12.

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Ellis, Roger. "Work in Progress: Spiritual Authorship and the Middle English Mystics." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_13.

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Fisher, Sheila. "Women’s Voices in Late Middle English Literature: Who Gets to Speak, and How?" In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_14.

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Coyle, Martin. "History, Frescoes and Reading the Middle Ages: A Final Note." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_15.

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