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OverviewThis volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O’Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott. See inside the book. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jay Paul Gates , Brian T. O'CambPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 11 Weight: 0.695kg ISBN: 9789004395152ISBN 10: 9004395156 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 19 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction: Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb 1 The Legacy of King Edgar in the Laws of Archbishop Wulfstan Nicole Marafioti 2 Exile and Migration in the Vernacular Lives of Edward “the Confessor” Erin Michelle Goeres 3 Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past Jay Paul Gates 4 The Hermitic Topos: “Selling” Shared Sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English Audiences Maren Clegg Hyer 5 Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries Cynthia Turner Camp 6 Peace Weaving and Gold Giving: Anglo-Saxon Queenship in Havelok the Dane Larissa Tracy 7 Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale Kathleen Smith 8 The Case of Poema Morale: Old English Homiletic Influence in Early Middle English Verse Carla María Thomas 9 The Familiar Wisdom of Treasured Friends and the Landscape of Conquest in The Proverbs of Alfred Brian O’Camb 10 The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy Eric Weiskott Afterword Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Kate Hurley Bibliography General IndexReviewsJay Paul Gates and Brian T. O'Camb's edited volume Remembering the Medieval Present</> is the eleventh in the Explorations in Medieval Culture series. In the interdisciplinary style characteristic of the series, it combines historical, philological, and manuscript approaches to political, religious, and literary sources in order to explore how the history of pre-Conquest England was engaged with, rewritten, and reinterpreted in the tenth to fifteenth centuries. At the centre of these essays sits an investigation into history, time, and community-collectively they explore how the past was used to create and navigate identity in the present. [...] The interdisciplinary approach of this collection is a great strength here. It contributes a comprehensive analysis into diverse usages of history, drawing out how different genres of sources in various ways worked to a similar goal of identity building. [...] Overall, Medieval Present provides a compelling variety of investigations into usages of the pre-Conquest past across genres and contexts; it is a sound addition to the research into appeals to history . Lucy Moloney, in Parergon, 38.1 (2021). Author InformationJay Paul Gates, Ph.D. (2007), is Associate Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Literature and Languages at John Jay College in the City University of New York. He co-edited, with Nicole Marafioti, Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (2014). He has published on Anglo-Saxon law and literature, the effects of Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact, and post-Conquest historiographical treatments of the Anglo-Saxon period. Brian O’Camb, Ph.D. (2009), is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Northwest. He has published articles on the scribal, material, and intellectual contexts of the Exeter Book, and its later reception and editorial transmission by the eighteenth-century antiquarian George Hickes, in journals such as English Literary History, Philological Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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