Worlds Made Flesh: Chronicle Histories and Medieval Manuscript Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415970600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 192 str.

Lauryn S. Mayer; Mayer Mayer; Lauren Mayer

Opis

Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue.

Spis treści

Introduction List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations Chapter One: The Metrical Chronicle Family and Manuscript Practice Chapter Two: The Manuscript Challenge to Ideas of Medieval Nationalism Chapter Three: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Comforts of Heroic Poetry Chapter Four: Caxton, Chaucer, and the Creation of an Auctor Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Lauryn Mayer received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She currently teaches in the Department of English at Washington and Jefferson College.