Angela Jane Weisl – författare

To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages addresses many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions;

Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance.The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore and challenge this genre. She argues that Chaucer's complex treatment of the romance, following both continental and Middle English traditions, experiments with and tests romance conventions.Each chapter looks indetail at one or more of Chaucer's works, examining their different approaches to the problems of gender, and showing how this is closely connected with genre. Subjects addressed include the feminised private spaces in Troilus and Criseydewhich protect Criseyde, but are inevitably penetrated by male power; the masculine imperatives of the epic which challenge the limits of the feminised romance in the Knight'sTale(and the speech of its heroine Emelye, who questions the assumptions of the genre itself); Canacee in the Squire's Tale, who rejects the stereotyped role of the heroine, and the romance world in the Tale of SirThopas, without a heroine at all.Dr ANGELA JANE WEISLis visiting assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio.

This volume considers how Global Medievalisms engage with space—real, cartographic, imagined—through a variety of forms of contestation, whether literal, such as battles, wars, or the displacement of peoples, or discursive. It applies a global lens to Medievalism Studies, which is essentially a methodology for understanding the making of the past in the present.In this illuminating study scholarly paradigms from the fields of Human Geography, Post-colonial, and Global Studies are brought to bear on medievalist texts and practices. Readers are challenged to reevaluate the focus of Medievalism Studies on the products of the West in isolation from African, Asian, and Oceanian re-imaginings of the pre-modern past. The book examines how different cultural regions articulate and use their own pasts differently; drawing on experiential medievalisms and on media from novels to films, from television shows and streaming video to board and electronic games, and analyzes responses to colonialism’s disruption of continuities with the pre-modern past and its dissemination of images of the European Middle Ages around the world. Robert Squillace and Angela Jane Weisl further argue that the global landscape of contemporary media, in which multinational companies distribute both professional and user-made medievalisms (unequally) across the globe, itself constitutes a space of global contestation in which formally marginalized cultures can sometimes challenge the hegemony of Western medievalisms.This study provides thought-provoking reading for students and scholars interested in Medievalisms, Post-Colonial studies, literatures of the Global South, and mass culture, as well as offering prompts for further research.

This volume considers how Global Medievalisms engage with space—real, cartographic, imagined—through a variety of forms of contestation, whether literal, such as battles, wars, or the displacement of peoples, or discursive. It applies a global lens to Medievalism Studies, which is essentially a methodology for understanding the making of the past in the present.In this illuminating study scholarly paradigms from the fields of Human Geography, Post-colonial, and Global Studies are brought to bear on medievalist texts and practices. Readers are challenged to reevaluate the focus of Medievalism Studies on the products of the West in isolation from African, Asian, and Oceanian re-imaginings of the pre-modern past. The book examines how different cultural regions articulate and use their own pasts differently; drawing on experiential medievalisms and on media from novels to films, from television shows and streaming video to board and electronic games, and analyzes responses to colonialism’s disruption of continuities with the pre-modern past and its dissemination of images of the European Middle Ages around the world. Robert Squillace and Angela Jane Weisl further argue that the global landscape of contemporary media, in which multinational companies distribute both professional and user-made medievalisms (unequally) across the globe, itself constitutes a space of global contestation in which formally marginalized cultures can sometimes challenge the hegemony of Western medievalisms.This study provides thought-provoking reading for students and scholars interested in Medievalisms, Post-Colonial studies, literatures of the Global South, and mass culture, as well as offering prompts for further research.

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as:What is medieval literature?What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature?How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed?How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century?Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as:What is medieval literature?What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature?How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed?How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century?Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as:

What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century?

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as:

What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century?

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.