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OverviewNew and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity. This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies. Known for championing once-neglected writers such as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, Simpson has also pioneered the field of Trans-Reformation studies, dismantling the barrier between the medieval and early modern periods. He has written powerfully about the history of freedoms, the relationship between literary and intellectual history, and about the category of the literary itself in all its urgency. Inspired by Simpson's interventions, the essays collected here deal with texts and topics from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde rub shoulders with Old English riddles, Saint Erkenwald, The Digby Lyrics, Lydgate's Dietary, and Lodge's Robert the Devil. Revisionist studies of two much-debated genres - allegory and romance - join forces with chapters on neglected physical features of early books, line-fillers and catchwords, as well as studies of iconoclasm and the histories of enemy love. The volume begins with a piece by the honorand himself, on recognition in literary texts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Daniel G. Donoghue (Customer) , Sebastian Sobecki , Professor Nicholas Watson (Contributor) , Laura AshePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: D.S. Brewer Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781843847113ISBN 10: 1843847116 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 05 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Contributors and Editors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Simpson: An Interim Report - Daniel Donoghue, Sebastian Sobecki, and Nicholas Watson Part I: The Hermeneutics of Recognition 1. The Shock of the Old: Recognition in the Humanities; The 2022 Morton W. Bloomfield Memorial Lecture - James Simpson 2. ""Stuffed with Divine Words"": Undigested Texts in Early Medieval England - Erica Weaver 3. The ""Physician's Tale"" and Chaucer's Art of Prosopopoeia - Julie Orlemanski 4. ""Troilus can afford to fall in love ... with whomsoever he will"": Free Will and Recognition in Troilus and Criseyde - Laura Ashe Part II: Genre and Figure 5. Only Rarely Obscure and Not a Genre: Medieval Allegorical Narrative - Nicolette Zeeman 6. ""Thynke nat the contrary"": Field Notes in the Ecology of Medieval Romance - Nicholas Perkins 7. Filling in the Lines: Text, Image, and Late Medieval Literary Forms - Jessica Brantley 8. Catching at Words: The Literal, the Metaphorical, and the Obvious - Chris Barrett Part III: Culture and Institutions 9. Petition, Justice, and Peace in Piers Plowman - Yun Ni 10. In Place of the Past: Saint Erkenwald's Versions of Conversion - Aparna Chaudhuri 11. Proverb and Satirical Time: The Digby Poems and Their Fifteenth Century - Spencer Strub 12. Common Style and the Bourgeois Ethos in John Lydgate's Dietary - Taylor Cowdery Part IV: Reformations 13. Rewriting Robert the Devil: Thomas Lodge and Medieval Romance - Cathy Shrank 14. Iconoclasm and the Epigraphic Image - Jessica Berenbeim 15. The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life (2 Corinthians 3:6): Or, What Happened to Enemy Love? - David Aers 16. James Simpson's Freedoms: An Appreciation - Jason Crawford James Simpson's Publications from 1984 to 2023 Bibliography A Note on the Bloomfield Conferences General Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationDANIEL DONOGHUE is Professor of English at Harvard University. His research explores Old English, Middle English, the History of English, Medievalism and Cognitive Literary Studies. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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