Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries: Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries

This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O'Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott. See inside the book. Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O’Camb Chapter 1 The Legacy of King Edgar in the Laws of Archbishop Wulfstan Nicole Marafioti Chapter 2 Exile and Migration in the Vernacular Lives of Edward “the Confessor” Erin Michelle Goeres Chapter 3 Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past Jay Paul Gates Chapter 4 The Hermitic Topos: “Selling” Shared Sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English Audiences Maren Clegg Hyer Chapter 5 Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries Cynthia Turner Camp Chapter 6 Peace Weaving and Gold Giving: Anglo-Saxon Queenship in Havelok the Dane Larissa Tracy Chapter 7 Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale Kathleen Smith Chapter 8 The Case of Poema Morale: Old English Homiletic Influence in Early Middle English Verse Carla María Thomas Chapter 9 The Familiar Wisdom of Treasured Friends and the Landscape of Conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred Brian T. O’Camb Chapter 10 The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy Eric Weiskott Afterword Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Kate Hurley Bibliography General Index La 4e de couverture indique :"This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O'Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott" "This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O'Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott"-- Provided by publisher By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.