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The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World
Edited by Marie-Françoise Alamichel
Edited by Derek Brewer

The eleven essays in this volume are studies of specific instances of the influence and impact of the middle ages on Western life and culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. They cover a wide range of topics -literature, stylistics, lexicography, art, the cinema, philosophy, history and myth-making, oral traditions, feminist issues - and reflect the enduring influence of the middle ages on European art and life.
Dr MARIE-FRANÇOISE ALAMICHELis lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; DEREK BREWER is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cambridge. Contributors: CLAIRE VIAL, DERICK S. THOMSON, KEES DEKKER, ERIC G. STANLEY, FLORENCE BOURGNE, RENATE HAAS, DEREK BREWER, LAURA KENDRICK, RENÉ GALLET, JAMES NOBLE, SANDRA GORGIEVSKI.

 

DETAILS

176 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
13 digit ISBN: 9780859915083
Binding: Hardback
First published: 03/Jul/1997
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
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BIC class: HRBQ53

STATUS: Out of stock
Details updated on 05/01/2009

Contents
   `From Written Record to Legend: the Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne as re-telling of the Morte D'Arthur'.
Claire Vial
   `Influences of medieval thinking on the Gaelic world in Scotland, sixteenth-century and later'.
Derick S. Thomson
   `Jan van Vliet (1620-1666) and the Study of Old English in the Low Countries'.
Kees Dekker
   `The Early Middle Ages = The Dark Ages = The Heroic Age of England and in English'.
   `Medieval mirrors and later vanitas paintings'.
Florence Bourgne
   `The Old Wives' Tale and Dryden'.
Renate Haas
   `Modernising the Medieval: Eighteenth-century Translations of Chaucer'.
Derek S Brewer
   `The American Middle Ages: Eighteenth-century saxonist myth- making'.
Laura Kendrick
   `Coleridge, Scholasticism, and German Idealism'.
René Gallet
  
James Noble
   `The Arthurian legend in the cinema: myth or history?'.
Sandra Gorgievski ****
  
Marie-Francoise Alamichel

 

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