Remembering the medieval present : generative uses of England's pre-conquest past, 10th to 15th centuries /
Remembering the medieval present : generative uses of England's pre-conquest past, 10th to 15th centuries /
edited by Jay Paul Gates, Brian O'Camb.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (vi, 339 pages).
- Explorations in medieval culture, volume 11 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon predecessors and precedents / The legacy of King Edgar in the laws of Archbishop Wulfstan / Exile and migration in the vernacular lives of Edward "the Confessor" / Quidam proditor partis Danicae : Aelred's re-imagining of the Anglo-Saxon past / The hermitic Topos : "selling" shared sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English audiences / Looking for holy grandmothers in late medieval nunneries / Peace weaving and gold giving : Anglo-Saxon queenship in Havelok the Dane / Writing, rewriting, and disrupting the Anglo-Saxon past in Chaucer's Man of Law's tale / The case of Poema Morale : Old English homiletic influence in early Middle English verse / The familiar wisdom of treasured friends and the landscape of conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred / The idea of Bede in English political prophecy / Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O'Camb -- Nicole Marafioti -- Erin Michelle Goeres -- Jay Paul Gates -- Maren Clegg Hyer -- Cynthia Turner Camp -- Larissa Tracy -- Kathleen Smith -- Carla María Thomas -- Brian T. O'Camb -- Eric Weiskott.
"This 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"--
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2019032905
Anglo-Saxons--Historiography.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Historiography.
Civilization, Medieval--Historiography.
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Literature, Medieval--Appreciation--England.
Anglo-Saxons in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Literature and history--Great Britain.
Electronic Books.
DA152 / .R464 2019
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon predecessors and precedents / The legacy of King Edgar in the laws of Archbishop Wulfstan / Exile and migration in the vernacular lives of Edward "the Confessor" / Quidam proditor partis Danicae : Aelred's re-imagining of the Anglo-Saxon past / The hermitic Topos : "selling" shared sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English audiences / Looking for holy grandmothers in late medieval nunneries / Peace weaving and gold giving : Anglo-Saxon queenship in Havelok the Dane / Writing, rewriting, and disrupting the Anglo-Saxon past in Chaucer's Man of Law's tale / The case of Poema Morale : Old English homiletic influence in early Middle English verse / The familiar wisdom of treasured friends and the landscape of conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred / The idea of Bede in English political prophecy / Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O'Camb -- Nicole Marafioti -- Erin Michelle Goeres -- Jay Paul Gates -- Maren Clegg Hyer -- Cynthia Turner Camp -- Larissa Tracy -- Kathleen Smith -- Carla María Thomas -- Brian T. O'Camb -- Eric Weiskott.
"This 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"--
9004408339 9789004408333
2019032905
Anglo-Saxons--Historiography.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Historiography.
Civilization, Medieval--Historiography.
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Literature, Medieval--Appreciation--England.
Anglo-Saxons in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Literature and history--Great Britain.
Electronic Books.
DA152 / .R464 2019