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The Cambridge companion to medieval English culture /

"This "companion" is designed to introduce a range of materials deemed to constitute the culture (or, perhaps better, cultures) of medieval England, from approximately the Norman Conquest to roughly the Reformation. The fields presented here may offer a rather unusual fit with standar...

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Other Authors: Galloway, Andrew Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Cambridge companions to culture.
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Online Access:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_j5ZOBuUiGwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Chronology; Introduction: medieval English culture and its companions /Andrew Galloway; Part I. Theaters of Culture: Political, Legal, Material: 1. From court to nation / Scott Waugh; 2. The legal revolution and the discourse of dispute in the twelfth century / Paul Hyams; 3. Archaeology and post-Conquest England / David Hinton; Part II. Cultural Ideals and Cultural Conflicts: 4. Social ideals and social disruption / Richard Kaeuper; 5. 'Celtic' visions of England / David Dumville; 6. The idea of sanctity and the uncanonized life of Margery Kempe / Rebecca Krug; Part III. Literacies, Languages, and Literatures: 7. Visual texts in post-Conquest England / Laura Kendrick; 8. Literacy, schooling, universities / Ralph Hanna; 9. Anglo-Latin literature in the later Middle Ages / David Carlson; 10. The vernaculars of medieval England, 1170-1350 / Elaine Treharne; 11. English literary voices, 1350-1500 / David Lawton; Part IV. Legacies and Re-creations: 12. Literary reformations of the Middle Ages / Helen Cooper; 13. Re-creating the Middle Ages / Clare Simmons; Guide to further reading; Index.