Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843847116 ISBN 13: 9781843847113

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, 2024

Synopsis

Inspired by the work of the hugely influential scholar James Simpson, the essays collected here deal with texts and topics from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Revisionist studies of two much-debated genres - allegory and romance - join forces with chapters on neglected physical features of early books, as well as studies of iconoclasm and the histories of enemy love. Works discussed include Langland's Piers Plowman, Chaucer's Physician's Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, Saint Erkenwald, The Digby Lyrics, Lydgate's Dietary, and Lodge's Robert the Devil.

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About the Authors

DANIEL DONOGHUE is Professor of English at Harvard University. His research explores Old English, Middle English, the History of English, Medievalism and Cognitive Literary Studies.

SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography.

NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843847116
• ISBN 13: 9781843847113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Daniel G. DonoghueSebastian SobeckiNicholas Watson