Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late-Medieval England

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-76897-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Lisa H. Cooper offers new insight into the relationship of material practice and literary production in the Middle Ages by exploring the representation of craft labor in England from c.1000-1483. She examines genres as diverse as the school-text, comic poem, spiritual allegory, and mirror for princes, and works by authors both well-known (Chaucer, Lydgate, Caxton) and far less so. Whether they represent craft as profitable endeavor, learned skill, or degrading toil, the texts she reviews not only depict artisans as increasingly legitimate members of the body politic, but also deploy images of craft labor and its products to confront other complex issues, including the nature of authorship, the purpose of community, the structure of the household, the fate of the soul, and the scope of princely power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Lisa H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: a is for artisan
1. Making conversations: from Ælfric's Colloquy to Caxton's Dialogues
2. Laboring legends: writing home in fable and fabliau
3. Shaping souls: artisanal allegory in the Pilgrimage poems of Guillaume de Deguileville and John Lydgate
4. Mirroring monarchs: Rex/Artifex in the Speculum Principum tradition
Epilogue: crafting nostalgias.

Über Autor(innen)

Cooper, Lisa H.
Lisa H. Cooper is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is co-editor, with Andrea Denny-Brown, of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2008).