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Material remains : reading the past in medieval and early modern British literature
Title
Material remains : reading the past in medieval and early modern British literature / edited by Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston.
ISBN
9780814214749
0814214746
9780814281376
0814281370
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Examines the understanding and experience of temporality as registered through the representation of found objects in medieval and early modern accounts, such as Beowulf, King Arthur, and Richard III. These essays re-evaluate how the Middle Ages is periodized"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2021
Series
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (paged 259-282) and index.
Contents
Found bodies: the living, the dead, and the undead in the broad medieval present / Sarah Salih
The beaker in the barrow, the flagon with the dragon: accessorizing Beowulf / Roberta Frank
Evidence of the past in the legend of the Seven Sleepers / Neil Cartlidge
The return of the king: exhuming King Arthur and Richard III / Philip Schwyzer
Global Beowulf and the poetics of entanglement / Andrew James Johnston
Weapons of healing: materiality and oral poetics in Old English remedies and medicinal charms / Lori Ann Garner
Saracens at St. Albans: the heart-case of Roger de Norton / Naomi Howell
The Ruthwell Cross and the Riddle of Time / Jan-Peer Hartmann
Archaeo-theatrics / Jonathan Gil Harris
11 ways of looking at renaissance ruins / Andrew Hui
But men seyn, "What may ever laste?": Chaucer's House of fame as a medieval museum / John Hines.
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