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Annual volume showcasing the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with widely varied themes, from confession in the domestic household to international politics and statecraft; experimental scientific knowledge, and the supernatural world of demons; canonical Arthurian romance, and scholastic theology in the vernacular; monastic historiographical visions, and geographies of pilgrimage. Investigations range from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, and from England to the Holy Land. Chrétien de Troyes's Le chevalier de la charrette and Geoffrey Chaucer's Friar's Tale are examined in new ways, and with new conclusions for their engagements with technologies of embodiment and the hermeneutics of bodily contact; Laȝamon's Brut is shown 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; Alain Chartier strives to build a united French state. Finally, domestic, familial, and civic bonds of obligation emerge in the shared textual communities of anonymous, late-medieval confessional forms.

Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- European cultures. --- Medieval textual cultures. --- Middle Ages. --- cultural pluralism. --- intellectual pluralism. --- literary analysis. --- medieval literary studies. --- medieval literature. --- medieval texts. --- medieval themes. --- textual communities.

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Literature --- anno 500-1499

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War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical, literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing significance. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeare's "Casus Belly"; Auden's "Journal of an Airman"; and War and Peace. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Mary A. Favret, Rachel Galvin, James Purdon, Mark Rawlinson, Susanna A. Throop, Katie J. Walter, Carol Watts, Tom F. Wright, Andrew Zurcher.

War in literature. --- War and literature. --- Literature and war --- Literature

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The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.

Great Britain --- History --- Assandun, Battle of, England, 1016. --- Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066. --- Hastings, Battle of, 1066 --- Ashingdon, Battle of, England, 1016 --- 1016-1087 --- Cnut. --- Danish conquest. --- England. --- Hastings. --- Norman Conquest. --- Swein. --- Vikings. --- William the Conqueror. --- currency. --- eleventh century. --- invasion. --- kings. --- manuscripts. --- medieval. --- numismatics. --- saints. --- slavery.

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