1st Edition
Worlds Made Flesh Chronicle Histories and Medieval Manuscript Culture
By Lauryn Mayer
Copyright 2004
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the use of the past in two senses. First, it looks at the way in which medieval texts from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries discussed the past: how they presented history, what kinds of historical narratives they employed, and what anxieties gathered around the practice of historiography. Second, this study examines twentieth-century interactions with this textual past,... Read more
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
Biography
Lauryn Mayer received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She currently teaches in the Department of English at Washington and Jefferson College.
