Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World

AvMarie-Françoise Alamichel,Derek S Brewer

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day.The eleven essays in this volume are studies of specific instances of the influence and impact of the middle ages on Western life and culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. They cover a wide range of topics -literature, stylistics, lexicography, art, the cinema, philosophy, history and myth-making, oral traditions, feminist issues - and reflect the enduring influence of the middle ages on European art and life.Dr MARIE-FRANÇOISE ALAMICHEL is lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; the late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cambridge.Contributors: CLAIRE VIAL, DERICK S. THOMSON, KEES DEKKER, ERIC G. STANLEY, FLORENCE BOURGNE, RENATE HAAS, DEREK BREWER, LAURA KENDRICK, RENÉ GALLET, JAMES NOBLE, SANDRA GORGIEVSKI.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-07-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:434 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780859915083

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

KEES DEKKER is senior lecturer in Older English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen.

Innehållsförteckning

From Written Record to Legend: the Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne as re-telling of the Morte D'Arthur. - Claire VialInfluences of medieval thinking on the Gaelic world in Scotland, sixteenth-century and later. - Derick S. ThomsonJan van Vliet (1620-1666) and the Study of Old English in the Low Countries. - Kees DekkerThe Early Middle Ages = The Dark Ages = The Heroic Age of England and in English. - Eric G. StanleyMedieval mirrors and later vanitas paintings. - Florence BourgneThe Old Wives' Tale and Dryden. - Renate HaasModernising the Medieval: Eighteenth-century Translations of Chaucer. - Derek S BrewerThe American Middle Ages: Eighteenth-century saxonist myth- making. - Laura KendrickColeridge, Scholasticism, and German Idealism. - René GalletThe Mists of Avalon: A Confused Assault on Patriarchy - James NobleThe Arthurian legend in the cinema: myth or history? - Sandra Gorgievski