New Medieval Literatures 21

<b>Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature emphasising the vibrancy of the field.</b><br><br><i>New Medieval Literatures</i> is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical archival philological and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies and embraces the range of European cultures capaciously defined.<br> Essays in this volume engage with a wide range of subject matter from as far back as Livy (d.c.AD 12/18) to Erwin Panofsky (d. 1968). They demonstrate that medieval textual cultures is a radically negotiable category and that medieval understandings of the past were equally diverse and unstable.They reflect on relationships between history texts and truth from a range of perspectives from Foucault to truthiness a twenty-first-century media coinage. Materiality and the technical crafts with which humans engage withthe natural world are recurrent themes opening up new insights on mysticism knighthood and manuscript production and reception. Analysis of manuscript illuminations offers new understandings of identity and diversity while a survey of every thirteenth-century manuscript that contains English currently in Oxford libraries yields a challenging new history of script. Particular texts discussed include Chrétien de Troyes's <i>Conte du Graal</i> Richard Rolle's <i>Incendium amoris</i> and <i>Melos amoris</i> and the Middle English verse romances <i>Lybeaus Desconus The Erle of Tolous Amis and Amiloun</i> and <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>.