Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English LiteratureCambridge University Press, 29 mai 2003 - 266 pages Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She argues that documentary culture (including charters, testaments, patents and seals) enabled writers to think in new ways about the conditions of textual production in late medieval England. |
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
Bracton Deguileville and the defense of allegory | 17 |
Lyric genre and the material text | 47 |
Piers Plowman and the archive of salvation | 93 |
Documents in the Piers Plowman | 143 |
Lollard community and the Charters of Christ | 193 |
Margery Baxter | 229 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature Emily Steiner Aucun aperçu disponible - 2009 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
allegory Ancrene Wisse argues Athanasian Creed Augustine Augustine's authority Bodleian Library Bracton British Library Carta Charter of Heaven Charters of Christ chirograph Christ's charter contract Creed Deguileville Deguileville's devil divine documentary culture documentary poetics documentary practice Domesday Book donor dreamer ecclesiastical ecclesiastical letters example Fasciculus morum feoffment fiction fourteenth century genre gloss haue Hawkyn heterodox indulgences Langland Langland's documents Late Medieval England Latin legal documents line number literal literary literature Lollard Long Charter Lyfe Magna Carta manuscript Margery Kempe material text Mede's charter Middle English narrative narrator official Passus patent Pèlerinage penitential personification allegory Piers Plowman Piers Plowman tradition Piers's pilgrim Pilgrimage poem poetry public writing quod readers rebel letters redemptive relationship rhetoric Rude Understanding salvation history scripture seal sermon Short Charter social soteriological Sothsegger soul spiritual suggests testament textual Thomas Hoccleve Thorpe translation Truth Truth's Pardon vernacular written record Wycliffite þat þis