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Dans les derniers siècles du Moyen Âge, l'Angleterre a connu des transformations essentielles, à la fois culturelles, politiques et sociales. Elles apparaissent dans toute leur complexité au sein de la production poétique contemporaine, qui a constitué durant cette période un médium de communication fondamental. Ainsi, l'objet de cette étude est-il l'analyse des interactions entre ces différentes transformations et un corpus de poèmes allitératifs composés en anglais dans le courant du XIVe siècle (dont le représentant le plus illustre est le Piers Plowman de William Langland). Il s'agit notamment de dégager toute la richesse de textes littéraires qui doivent être considérés comme des sources historiques à part entière. L'auteur s'attache tout d'abord à replacer ces textes dans leur cadre social et culturel, avant d'analyser leur diffusion. Elle envisage ensuite les nombreux thèmes abordés dans les poèmes, qui montrent les multiples intérêts des poètes : l'organisation de la société, le gouvernement et la justice, l'institution ecclésiastique et la connaissance, la perception du salut de chacun et de tous, la conscience que les auteurs avaient de leur activité littéraire. Les critiques de ces derniers, mais aussi leurs propositions et leurs espoirs, reflètent et enrichissent un dialogue de plus en plus large au sein de la société anglaise.

Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Langland, William,

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The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of them is developed some important facet of the intellectual milieu of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reflecting Otis Green's life-long and wide-ranging quest for evidence that would broaden our understanding of those complex periods and correct the misapprehensions which have gathered about them. Included are important sections of his great work, Spain and the Western Tradition and essays from journals now difficu

Renaissance --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Spanish literature --- History and criticism.

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Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of different modern methodologies used to interrogate hagiographies, from early twentieth-century source criticism, to the insights gained from gender studies, postmodernism and digital humanities.

Christian hagiography --- Hagiographers --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- History --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Hagiographers - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Hagiographie médiévale --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Hagiologists --- Biographers

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A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature. - ;In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.

English literature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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Was haben Verliebte und Dichter gemeinsam? Beide stehen vor der Herausforderung, die rätselhafte Erfahrung von Liebe in Worte zu fassen. In Liedern und Romanen des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts erscheint Minne vor allem als gelungene oder gestörte Kommunikation: Sie bringt die Betroffenen zum Nachdenken und zum Reden, um dann auch den Geliebten oder die Geliebte zur Minne zu über-reden. Ganz ähnlich müssen Dichter Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts ihr Publikum mit dem neuen Motiv ""Minne"" und der kulturellen Innovation höfischer Dichtung erst vertraut machen und zur Annahme ihrer Kommunikationsangebote be

Love poetry --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Courtly love in literature. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism.