Lydgate Matters : Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (The New Middle Ages)

Denny-Brown, Andrea (EDT)/ Cooper, Lisa Hyatt

Palgrave Macmillan（2007/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 223 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781403976741
• DDC分類 821.2

Full Description

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in
light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with
critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the
cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the
heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late
medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging
fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole
explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in
our own.

Contents

Lydgate Matters; L. H. Cooper  and A. Denny-Brown Lydgate and London's Public Culture; C. Sponsler Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache; A. Denny-Brown Sovereignty and Sewage; P. Strohm Lydgate's Worse Poem; M. Nolan 'Markys...Off the Workman': Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man; L. H. Cooper Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters; M. R. Warren St. George and the 'Steyned Halle': Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers; J. Floyd Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption; J. M. Ganim Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When; D. Vance Smith