New Medieval Literatures 22

New Medieval Literatures is an annual that showcases the best new work in medieval textual cultures, engaging with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Essays cover a range of themes, from confession to international politics, and from Arthurian romance to scholastic theology. Investigations range from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, from England to the Holy Land, and explore the interactions between technology, embodiment, and hermeneutics, as well as monastic historiography and vernacular theology. The volume also examines the relationships between multiple narratives, the natural world, and civic bonds of obligation in late-medieval confessional forms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 310 pages
Publication date: 11 March 2022
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

New Medieval Literatures is an annual publication that showcases the finest new work in the field of medieval textual cultures. With a commitment to engaging with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and beyond, it encompasses a wide range of methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, including theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist approaches. The volume embraces the diverse European cultures, broadly defined, and explores a diverse array of themes. Essays in this collection delve into various subjects, such as confession within domestic households, international politics and statecraft, experimental scientific knowledge, the supernatural realm of demons, canonical Arthurian romance, scholastic theology in the vernacular, monastic historiographical visions, and geographies of pilgrimage. The investigations span from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, covering regions from England to the Holy Land.

In this volume, scholars reexamine renowned works such as Chrétien de Troyes' Le chevalier de la charrette and Geoffrey Chaucer's Friar's Tale, exploring their engagements with technologies of embodiment and the hermeneutics of bodily contact. Laȝamon's Brut is demonstrated to bring the expectations of monastic historiography into the vernacular, while Reginald Pecock's radical and sophisticated vernacular theology is explicated in all its dangerous heterodoxy. Multiple narratives converge and are occluded at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Albert the Great experiments with animals and reorients humans in the natural world, while Alain Chartier strives to build a united French state.

Furthermore, domestic, familial, and civic bonds of obligation emerge in the shared textual communities of anonymous, late-medieval confessional forms.

The contributors to this volume are:

Robyn A. Bartlett
Kantik Ghosh
Aylin Malcolm
Alastair Minnis
Luke Sunderland
Jami

Weight: 486g
Dimension: 145 x 223 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781843846239