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Remembering the medieval present : generative uses of England's pre-conquest past, 10th to 15th centuries
Title
Remembering the medieval present : generative uses of England's pre-conquest past, 10th to 15th centuries / edited by Jay Paul Gates, Brian O'Camb.
ISBN
9789004395152
9004395156
9789004408333
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Physical Description
vi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O'Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Remembering the medieval present. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2020
Series
Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 11
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon predecessors and precedents / Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O'Camb
The legacy of King Edgar in the laws of Archbishop Wulfstan / Nicole Marafioti
Exile and migration in the vernacular lives of Edward "the Confessor" / Erin Michelle Goeres
Quidam proditor partis Danicae : Aelred's re-imagining of the Anglo-Saxon past / Jay Paul Gates
The hermitic Topos : "selling" shared sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English audiences / Maren Clegg Hyer
Looking for holy grandmothers in late medieval nunneries / Cynthia Turner Camp
Peace weaving and gold giving : Anglo-Saxon queenship in Havelok the Dane / Larissa Tracy
Writing, rewriting, and disrupting the Anglo-Saxon past in Chaucer's Man of Law's tale / Kathleen Smith
The case of Poema Morale : Old English homiletic influence in early Middle English verse / Carla María Thomas
The familiar wisdom of treasured friends and the landscape of conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred / Brian T. O'Camb
The idea of Bede in English political prophecy / Eric Weiskott.
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