New Medieval Literatures 26

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This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the best new work in the field.

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This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the best new work in the field. Essays in this volume cover a rich and diverse range - in chronological terms, from the ninth to the fifteenth century, and across linguistic traditions from Old and Middle English to medieval Latin and Middle French. Using varied conceptual tools and detailed explorations of social, cultural, and intellectual contexts, they offer new interpretations of key works from the central and late Middle Ages. Contributors explore the educational background of the Middle English "Ricardians" - Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, and the Gawain-poet - through the novel perspective of versification; the intellectual context for the poem St Erkenwald, where a poem about the miraculous salvation of a pagan reflects a detailed engagement with contemporary theology that tests the limits of theological orthodoxy; and the social background of the Gawain-poet, via examples of household hierarchy. A form of textual analysis known as "ergodics" is deployed to offer a way of making sense of the unique challenge of the Old English Maxims, and their position in monastic reading cultures. The Middle English Titus and Vespasian, which tells the story of the siege of Jerusalem, is shown to contain a complex and conflicted form of anti-Judaism, traversed in complex ways by anxieties about gender as well religion and race. Finally, in a linked suite of essays, late medieval heraldry is illuminated from a range of unexpected perspectives drawn from the study of literary form, examining heraldic miscellanies, the creativity of the heraldic imaginary, and the community-building work of the late medieval poetic society known as the Cour Amoureuse.

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ISBN: 9781843847922

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: D.S. Brewer

Illustration: 6 b/w illus.

Contributors:

Edited by Laura Ashe
Contributions by Hope Doherty-Harrison
Contributions by Dr J. R. Mattison
Contributions by Michael Matto
Edited by Professor Wendy Scase
Edited by Caroline Batten
Contributions by Elizaveta Strakhov
Edited by Philip Knox
Contributions by Professor Eric Weiskott

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 252

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: New Medieval Literatures

About the Author

PHILIP KNOX is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. CAROLINE BATTEN is Assistant Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

New Medieval Literatures 26