Synopses & Reviews
New Medieval Literatures is the first issue of a new annual of work on literature and culture in medieval Europe. As well as featuring exciting new essays that interpret medieval texts for a postmodern age, every volume will include a survey by a leading medievalist of recent work in an emerging field of study. The essays in NML 1 question the concept of the medieval text itself. The volume as a whole demonstrates the central contribution of medievalists to the "production of the present."
Table of Contents
Medieval Literatures 1997: Breaking the Seal,
Wendy ScaseTextual Territory: the Regional and Geographical Dynamic of Medieval Icelandic Literary Production, Margaret Clunies Ross
Counterfeiters, Lollards, and Lancastrain Unease, Paul Strohm
Langlandian Reading Circles and the Civil Service in London and Dublin, 1380-1427, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Steven Justice
Conceptions of the Word: the Mother Tongue and the Incarnation of God, Nicholas Watson
Childhood, Pedagogy, and the Literal Sense: from Late Antiquity to the Lollard Heretical Classroom, Rita Copeland
Pedagogy, Violence, and the Subject of Music: Chaucer's Prioress's Tale and the Ideologies of `Song', Bruce Holsinger
`When a Body meets a Body': Fergus and Mary in the York Cycle, Ruth Evans
Ageism: Leland, Bale, and the Laborious Start of English Literary History, 1350-1550, James Simpson
Literary History and Cultural Study, David Lawton