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Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures

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Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures publishes occasional volumes in honor of significant scholars of various fields of humanistic study and the premodern past, including: vernacular languages, literatures and cultures; social history and prosopography; popular beliefs and their expression; and more. This series also includes texts of significant public lectures or lecture series in the same fields.

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Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition

Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman

Lydia Yaitsky Kertz, Richard K. Emmerson

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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Professor Herzman’s outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781501516870
ISBN:: 9781501516870
ISBN:: 9781501516900
ISBN:: 9781501527142
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Italienische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 13.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2023

Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England

Essays on Manuscripts and Meaning in Honor of Susanna Fein

Michael Johnston, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Derek Pearsall

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Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking research on seminal manuscripts (e.g., Harley 2253, the Thornton Manuscripts, John Audley’s autograph manuscript, and the Auchinleck Manuscript). She has written extensively on the more complex and challenging metrical forms the period produced. And she has edited foundational primary texts and collections of essays. A wide range of scholars have been influenced by Fein’s work, many of whom present original research—much of it following trails first laid down by Fein—in this volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516481
ISBN:: 9781501516481
ISBN:: 9781501524806
ISBN:: 9781501516511
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2022

Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture

Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn

Valerie B. Johnson, Kara L. McShane

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Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514210
ISBN:: 9781501514210
ISBN:: 9781501520563
ISBN:: 9781501514234
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

Early English Poetic Culture and Meter

The Influence of G. R. Russom

M. J. Toswell, Lindy Brady

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

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This volume develops Geoffrey Richard Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras. Tom Bredehoft and Megan Hartman take up his word-foot theory to offer a radical but very logical restructuring of the relationship between prose and poetry. Jun Terasawa and R. D. Fulk address specific issues in Old English and Old Norse meter, while Eric Weiskott picks up Russom's current concern, the late medieval context for alliterative meter. Dan Donoghue and Hal Momma investigate the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Lindy Brady uses a stylistic detail in Beowulf to rethink the role of the Geats in the poem, and Jane Toswell proffers another dimension of poetic style in the early medieval context - polyptoton in vernacular texts. Tom Cable offers a contextualizing foreword to the collection.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442435
ISBN:: 9781580442435
ISBN:: 9781501512575
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

Telling Tales and Crafting Books

Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren

Dorsey Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, Alexander L. Kaufman

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

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The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create mirth; what modern audiences would often define as happiness or joy, and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences.

This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580442299
ISBN:: 9781580442299
ISBN:: 9781501512513
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2019

Ballads of the North, Medieval to Modern

Essays Inspired by Larry Syndergaard

Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, Richard Firth Green

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This volume is intended as a belated but heartfelt thank-you and Gedenkschrift to the late Larry Syndergaard (1936-2015), long-time professor of English at Western Michigan University and Fellow of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (International Ballad Commission). Larry’s contributions down the decades to ballad studies--particularly Scandinavian and Anglophone--included dozens of papers and articles, as well as his supremely useful book, English Translations of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballads. As David Atkinson and Thomas A. McKean of the Kommission have written (May 2015): “Larry... was a sound scholar with a penetrating mind which he used to support, encourage and befriend others, rather than show off his own knowledge. He will be remembered for his contributions to international balladry, especially for providing a bridge between the English- and Scandinavian-language ballads.” Larry’s particular fascination with the vernacular ballads of the northern medieval world are reflected in this collection; topics here range from plot elements such as demonic whales, otherworldly antagonists, and mer-people to thematic issues of genre, religion and sexual mores. As a tribute to the global influence of Larry’s scholarship and the broad academic interest in medieval ballads, the essays in this volume were contributed by twelve international scholars of narrative song based in Europe, North America and Australia.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661934
ISBN:: 9783110661934
ISBN:: 9781580443630
ISBN:: 9783110660456
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturen anderer Länder und Spachen
Fachgebiet:: Skandinavische Literatur
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications