Medieval Into Renaissance

The borderline between the periods commonly termed medieval and Renaissance or medieval and early modern is one of the most hotly energetically and productively contested faultlines in literary history studies. The essays presented in this volume both build upon and respond to the work of Professor Helen Cooper a scholar who has long been committed to exploring the complex connections and interactions between medieval and Renaissance literature. The contributors re-examine a range of ideas authors and genres addressed in her work including pastoral chivalric romance early English drama and the writings of Chaucer Langland Spenser and Shakespeare. As a whole the volume aims to stimulate active debates on the ways in which Renaissance writers used adapted and remembered aspects of the medieval. Andrew King is Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at University College Cork; Matthew Woodcock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Joyce Boro Aisling Byrne Nandini Das Mary C. Flannery Alexandra Gillespie Andrew King Megan G. Leitch R.W. Maslen Jason Powell Helen Vincent James Wade Matthew Woodcock