‘“Troilus can afford to fall in love ... with whomsoever he will”: Free Will and Recognition in Troilus and Criseyde’
March 2024
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Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson
‘“For love and for lovers”: The Origins of Romance’
May 2023
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The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
An introduction, bibliography of texts and translations as well as chapter-by-chapter reading lists complete this essential guide.
Literary Criticism
Historical and Political Changes
May 2023
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English
Abstract
During a period of warfare, nation-building, and complex political involvement with France, when Latin and French literature flourished, English poetry must have thrived in an oral culture largely lost to us. In the extant written record it emerges in three genres: didactic poetry, lyric, and narrative. The first was essential for pastoral care of a largely monolingual population; this necessity produced the earliest major work in Middle English verse, the Ormulum. Contemporaneously appear fragments of English devotional lyrics; thirteenth-century manuscripts preserve virtuosic religious lyrics in the affective tradition, alongside the emergent secular love lyric, all embedded in a multilingual, intertextual context. Most well known is narrative poetry, including romance and historiography; earliest here is Layamon’s immense Brut, a translation that is also an act of creation, clarifying the cultivation and aesthetic virtuosity now sought and achieved in English verse.
Mark Faulkner . A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English
April 2023
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The Review of English Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4704 Linguistics, 4705 Literary Studies
Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years’ War
January 2023
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Medieval Poetry: 1100-1400: Volume 2
‘The Norman Rule’
December 2022
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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature
Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides.
Literary Criticism
New Medieval Literatures 22
March 2022
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Edited book
'"All this will not comfort me": Romancing the Ballad in The Squire of Low Degree'
January 2022
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Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance
New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.
English
January 2022
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LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES
Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066
June 2020
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Edited book
The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.
History
How to read both: The logic of true contradictions in Chaucer’s World
January 2020
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
© 2020 The New Chaucer Society This essay argues that medieval culture is characterized by a commitment to mutually exclusive truths, despite upholding the fundamental principle of Aristotelian logic that there can be no true contradictions. The possibility of true contradiction, known to modern philosophy as dialetheism, is explored in Troilus and Criseyde, Pearl, and Piers Plowman; in contrast, Chaucer’s Pardoner is discussed as an example of lived contradiction that manifests as incoherence. The law of noncontradiction is still regarded as fundamental in philosophy, despite some celebrated challenges: Hegel’s famous insistence on the contradictory nature of all things is here used to illuminate the logical difficulties created by the ineffable nature of the Trinity. Medieval theologians such as Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Robert Holcot, and others, were faced with a particularly acute epistemological crisis as they struggled to formulate theories that could reconcile the universality of logic (without which all rational inquiry was threatened) with the unique contradictions of triune divinity. Finally, the inevitable existence of moral dialetheias, in life and in fiction, is explored in the emergence of the romance, first in the illusory moral dilemmas of Chrétien’s romances, and then in the real moral crisis suffered by Thomas of Britain’s Tristan. It is argued in conclusion that fiction is the prime tool for the examination of true contradiction, being in itself a lie of profound moral necessity.
The curelesse wound: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and the Poetry of Blood
June 2019
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Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey
Medieval and Early Modern Religious Cultures Essays Honouring Vincent Gillespie on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday
April 2019
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Edited book
New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages, highlighting their diversity and sophistication.
England in Europe. English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c. 1000-c. 1150
April 2018
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JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
Sin, interiority, and selfhood in the twelfth-century West. By Susan R. Kramer. (Studies and Texts, 200.) Pp. xii + 171. Toronto, On: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. $80. 978 0 88844 200 0
April 2018
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
5004 Religious Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
New Medieval Literatures 18
February 2018
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Edited book
"An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them." Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies
Archaeology, Medieval
The Oxford English Literary History Volume 1: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
September 2017
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Book
This volume explores the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350.
Literary Criticism
GEOFFREY CHAUCER A new introduction
January 2017
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives ed. by Susanna Fein (review)
January 2017
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Arthuriana
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , ed. P. J. C. Field. 2 vols. (Arthurian Studies 80.) Cambridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2013. Pp. xliii, 940 (1); xxxi, 988 (2). $340. ISBN: 978-1-84384-314-6.
July 2016
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Speculum
4404 Development Studies, 44 Human Society
John Ford, ed., Anglo-Norman Amys e Amilioun: The Text of Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 345 (olim Codex Durlac 38) in Parallel with London, British Library, MS Royal 12 C. XII . (Medium Aevum Monographs 27.) Ox...
April 2016
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Speculum
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 44 Human Society
New Medieval Literatures 16
March 2016
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Edited book
Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham New Medieval Literatures is an annual
of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the
theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with ...
Literary Criticism
Richard II
January 2016
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Book
Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer
September 2015
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Book
1155 and the Beginnings of Fiction
January 2015
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History Today
The Ideal of Knighthood in English and French Writing, 1100–1230: Crusade, Piety, Chivalry and Patriotism
June 2014
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Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory
SBTMR
Elisabeth Salter and Helen Wicker, eds., Vernacularity in England and Wales, c. 1300–1550 . (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 17.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. vi, 335; black-and-white figures and 1 table. €70. ISBN: 9782503528830.
January 2014
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Speculum
36 Creative Arts and Writing, 3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 44 Human Society
War and Literature
January 2014
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Edited book
Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.
Literary Criticism
Reviews and Short Notices
December 2013
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History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Reviews and Short Notices
April 2013
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History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Language
March 2013
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A Handbook of Middle English Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4704 Linguistics
Holinshed and Mythical History
December 2012
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The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
The Anomalous King of Conquered England
October 2012
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Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
ANGLO-SAXON KEYWORDS
January 2012
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
ARTHURIAN LITERATURE 28 Blood, sex, Malory - Essays on "The Morte Darthur"
January 2012
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Harold Godwineson
January 2012
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Medieval Heroes and Anti-Heroes
Geffrei Gaimar: Estoire des Engleis (History of the English), ed. and tr. Ian Short
February 2011
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Mutatio dexterae Excelsi: Narratives of Transformation after the Conquest
January 2011
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Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England, 1250-1350
January 2011
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MEDIUM AEVUM
The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis
October 2010
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The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Limits of Chivalry
January 2010
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The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
January 2010
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Edited book
Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.
Literary Criticism
The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis (review)
January 2010
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The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
JANE BLISS. Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance.
April 2009
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The Review of English Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4703 Language Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance
January 2008
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Chapter
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Boundaries in Medieval Romance
The Sea and Medieval English Literature
January 2008
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MEDIUM AEVUM
William Marshal, Lancelot, and Arthur
January 2008
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Anglo-Norman Studies
Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200
December 2007
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Book
A new reading of the emergence of an English national character in the writings of the early Middle Ages.
History
Reading like a clerk in The Clerk's Tale
September 2006
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Modern Language Review
The Meaning of Suffering: Symbolism and anti-symbolism in the death of Tristan
June 2006
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Chapter
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Writers of the reign of Henry II: Twelve Essays
‘Exile‐and‐return’ and English Law: The Anglo‐Saxon Inheritance of Insular Romance
May 2006
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Literature Compass
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
The Short Charter of Christ: an unpublished longer version, from Cambridge University Library, MS. Add. 6686
January 2003
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Medium Aevum
'A Prayer and a Warcry' The Creation of a Secular Religion inthe Song of Roland
April 1999
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The Cambridge Quarterly
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
