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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
Nordic Italies
Because of its history, art, and natural and cultural landscapes, Italy has been a popular destination for North-European travellers since the age of the Grand Tour. Yet, literary images of Italy are not all linked to the tradition of the journey to this country and cannot be labelled as a manifestation of Northerners’ yearning for the Southern sun. The corpus of critical literature which deals with Italy in Nordic literatures is very wide but also fragmentary. While many scholars have written about this topic and chiefly on the relations between individual Scandinavian literatures or well-known authors – such as Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen – and Italy, fe...
Celibacy and Religious Traditions
For an educated, general readership and for use in college courses, this text introduces the role of celibacy, or a lack of it, in various religious traditions, and the contributors present the rationale for its observance (or not) within the context of each tradition.
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and cus...
La vie de Seint Clement: Text (7007-end)
A critical edition of the Vie de seint Clement, an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse text of the thirteenth century which combines versions of Rufinus of Aquileia's translations of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitiones and the Epistola Clementis ad Iacobum with a partial translation of a version of Pseudo-Marcellus' Passio sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli.
The Abingdon Apocalypse (British Library, Add. 24555)
A critical edition of the Anglo-Norman translation of the abridged Berengaudus Apocalypse commentary preserved in London, British LIbrary Add. 42555. With full commentary and glossary, and a critical edition of the Latin Vulgate text of the Metz-Lambeth group of Apocalypses.
Comic Drama in the Low Countries, C.1450-1560
"During the Middle Ages and early modern period, a dramatic culture of astonishing vitality developed in the Low Countries. Owing to the activities of organizations known as rederijkerskamers, or "chambers of rhetoric", dramas became a central aspect of public life in the cities of the Netherlands. The comedies produced by these groups are particularly interesting. Drawing their forms and narratives from folklore and popular ritual, and entertaining in their own right, they also bring together a range of important concerns; they respond directly to some of the key developments in the period, reflecting the political and religious turmoil of the Reformation and Dutch Revolt, the emergence of ...
La vie de Seint Clement: Text (1-7006)
A critical edition of the Vie de seint Clement, an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse text of the thirteenth century which combines versions of Rufinus of Aquileia's translations of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitiones and the Epistola Clementis ad Iacobum with a partial translation of a version of Pseudo-Marcellus' Passio sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli.
