Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate households on both sides of the English Channel. The book argues that there is a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression. Contributors address a range of cultural productions, including conduct texts, romances and comic writing, estates-management literature, medical writing, household music and drama and manuscript anthologies. Their studies provide a fresh illustration of the late-medieval household's imaginative scope, its extensive internal and external connections and its fundamental centrality to late-medieval cultural production.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-09
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526144218

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Glenn D. Burger is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Dean of Graduate Studies at Queens College, CUNYRory G. Critten is Lecturer in Old and Middle English at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Recensioner i media

'One final note in favor of this volume is the frequency of cross-references between the essays: Burger’s essay makes good use of Kuipers’s argument, Seaman cites Burger, Critten cites Radulescu, etc. These connections not only strengthen the volume’s coherence, but make a good case for the household as meaningful field of study.'Studies in the Age of Chaucer'Glenn Burger and Rory Critten’s well-edited collection gives new dimension to topics often associated either with medieval universities or the royal household...The underlying question of medieval practicality stands to be the core of important future work for which this collection, with its range of theoretical and historical approaches and effective footnotes, is an intelligent and well-rounded resource.'Arthuriana

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction: the home life of information – Glenn D. Burger and Rory G. Critten2 Knowledge production in the late-medieval married household: the case of Le Menagier de Paris – Glenn D. Burger3 Knowing incompetence: elite women in Caxton’s Book of the Knight of the Tower – Elliot Kendall4 Renovating the household through affective invention in manuscripts Ashmole 61 and Advocates 19.3.1 – Myra Seaman5 The Christmas drama of the household of St John’s College, Oxford – Elisabeth Dutton6 Household song in Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale – Sarah Stanbury7 Field knowledge in gentry households: ‘pears on a willow’? – Nadine Kuipers8 Domestic ideals: healing, reading, and perfection in the late-medieval household – Michael Leahy9 Macrocosm and microcosm in household manuscript Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.2.38 – Raluca Radulescu10 The multilingual English household in a European perspective: London, British Library MS Harley 2253 and the traffic of texts – Rory G. CrittenIndex