TY - BOOK ID - 3470642 TI - The Cambridge companion to medieval English culture AU - Galloway, Andrew AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 2011 VL - *10 SN - 9780521673273 9780521856898 9780511975646 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Littérature anglaise KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Great Britain KW - England KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Angleterre KW - History KW - Intellectual life KW - Civilization KW - Histoire KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Civilisation KW - Littérature anglaise KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3470642 AB - "The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, religion and the history of education. Above all it looks at the literature of medieval England in Latin, French and English, plus post-medieval perspectives on the 'Middle Ages'. In a linked series of essays experts in these areas show the complex relationships between them, building up a broad account of rich patterns of life and literature in this period. The essays are supplemented by a chronology and guide to further reading, helping students build on the unique access this volume provides to what can seem a very foreign culture"-- "This "companion" is designed to introduce a range of materials deemed to constitute the culture (or, perhaps better, cultures) of medieval England, from approximately the Norman Conquest to roughly the Reformation. The fields presented here may offer a rather unusual fit with standard courses and disciplines, but the pressures on modern frameworks are intended. It is not unusual, however, for study of early periods to offer some combination of "literature," "history," "archaeology," "art history," or other field. Studies in antiquity and the Renaissance do this regularly; and medieval studies was from the outset defined in an equally capacious frame"-- ER -