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Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature
By (author) Emily Steiner
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Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The literature of this period, from Passion lyrics to Lollard sermons, abounds in documentary language and metaphors. Steiner argues that documentary culture (including charters, testaments, patents and seals) enabled writers to think in new ways about the conditions of textual production in late medieval England. She explains that the distinctive rhetoric, material form and ritual performance of legal documents offered writers of Chaucer's generation and the generation succeeding him a model of literary practice. Covering a wide variety of medieval texts: sermons, lyrics, Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, The Book of Margery Kempe, heretical writings and trial records, this study will be of interest to scholars of medieval literary studies and medieval studies in general.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 29 May 2003
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 286
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 590g
ISBN | 978-0-5218-2484-2
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BISAC | literary criticism / ancient & classical
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