Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature: From Cædmon to Malory

ISBN-13: 9780415897945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 236 str.

Lawrence Besserman

Opis

This book highlights the shaping influence of biblical and biblically derived sacred paradigms on exemplary literature produced in the Middle Ages.

Spis treści

Preface  List of Illustrations  Introduction  1. Biblical Paradigms in Old English Verse: Cædmon’s Hymn, Exodus, and Beowulf  2. Sacred and Secular in the Middle English Lyric: "Maiden in the Moor Lay" and "I Sing of a Maiden"  3. Sacred and Secular in the World of Romance: The Idea of the Green Knight  4. Biblical Analogies and the Language of Love in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde  5. Chivalry and the Scandal of the Sacred in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur  Conclusion  List of Abbreviations  Works Cited

O autorze

Lawrence Besserman is Professor of English, emeritus, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he has also taught at Columbia, Harvard, and NYU. Among his previously published books are The Legend of Job in the Middle Ages, (Harvard, 1979), Chaucer and the Bible (Garland, 1988), and Chaucer’s Biblical Poetics (Univ. of Oklahoma, 1998). He has edited two collections of essays: The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives (Garland, 1996) and Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early modern Cultures: New Essays (Macmillan-Palgrave, 2006).