Joseph Taylor (Huntsville University of Alabama)

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages examines the origins of England's North-South divide, illustrating how discourse of the modern divide is established and cultivated in medieval English literature including works such as the Canterbury Tales, the ballads of Robin Hood, and even medieval mystery plays.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781009182119
• ISBN-10: 1009182110
• Artikelnr.: 64367253

Autorenporträt

Joseph Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he teaches courses in medieval literature and history of the English language. He is the co-editor (with Randy P. Schiff) of The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life and Law in Medieval Britain (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. William of Malmesbury, Bede, and the problem of the north
2. The north-south divide in the medieval English universities
3. Chaucer's northern consciousness in the Reeve's Tale
4. Centralization, resistance, and the north of England in A Gest of Robyn Hode
5. The Towneley plays, the pilgrimage of grace and northern Messianism.