Lisa H. Cooper

Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781107631397
• ISBN-10: 1107631394
• Artikelnr.: 40551886

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.