Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2022

Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture

Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn

Edited by: Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane

In the series Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514210

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Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

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Valeria B. Johnson, University of Montevallo, Alabama, USA; Kara L. McShane, Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Reimagining Medieval Studies: The Career of Thomas Hahn Theresa Coletti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I Marginalized Texts, Traditions, and Voices
Chapter 2 Racialized Outcasts: Non-White Bodies and the Construction of the Outlaw-Hero in Modern Robin Hood Film Leah Haught Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 3 The Mongols of Middle English Literature Leila K. Norako Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4 Lybeaus Desconus: Illegitimacy and the Spurious Mother Eve Salisbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 5 Thomas Becket and the Pardoner’s Problem: Eunuchry and Healing on the Road to Canterbury Merrall Llewelyn Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter 6 Anxious Appearance: Illustrating Dissimulation and the Case of the Counterfeit Crank James A. Knapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7 Acallam na Senórach and Border-Discourse Emily Rebekah Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 8 Ecomedieval Revenge and Justice in “Robyn and Gandelyn” Valerie B. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 9 Outcast Lyrics: Responsive Reading in the Findern Manuscript Cynthia A. Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part II: Networks of Connection
Chapter 10 Decoding the Dead: Funerary Inscriptions in St. Erkenwald and The Book of John Mandeville Kara L. McShane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter 11 Alexander the Great: A Study of Legitimacy, Futility, and the Problem of Getting Home Safely in Gower’s Confessio Amantis Russell A. Peck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 12 Richard Coer de Lyon and Invented Identities Lynn Staley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Chapter 13 The Crow’s “Cokkow!”: Bird Debates and Chaucer’s “Manciple’s Tale” Sarah Stanbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter 14 Perceval’s Mare Alan Lupack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Chapter 15 Gower’s Aristotelian Legacy: Reading Responsibility in the Confessio Amantis and the Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod Misty Schieberle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Chapter 16 “The Prioress’s Tale” and Vernacular Devotion Derrick Pitard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

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Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Academics (Medieval English Literature; Middle English), Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 365
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Middle English; Marginalization; Medieval Romance; Reading Culture

eBook

Published: March 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781501514210

Hardcover

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9781501520563