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This collection of original essays honors the influential work of Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a wide range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and from Chaucer's age to nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism, including a rich section on Italian Renaissance humanism and visual art.
Drawing from a variety of primary sources, the essays in this volume are united in their emphases on the complex ways in which these sources are situated in their own time, mediated historically through other texts and other readers, and read within the context of contemporary social questions and disciplinary structures. This collection will be appreciated by all scholars and students of medieval studies.
Contributors: Robert M. Stein, Sandra Pierson Prior, Nicholas Howe, Monika Otter, Sarah Spence, Charlotte Gross, Nancy F. Partner, H. Marshall Leicester, Jr., Christopher Baswell, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Peter W. Travis, Margaret Aziza Pappano, William Askins, George D. Economou, Elizabeth Robertson, Laura L. Howes, John M. Ganim, Sealy Gilles, Sylvia Tomasch, Warren Ginsberg, Joan M. Ferrante, Joseph A. Dane, and David Rosand.
Show moreThis collection of original essays honors the influential work of Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a wide range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and from Chaucer's age to nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism, including a rich section on Italian Renaissance humanism and visual art.
Drawing from a variety of primary sources, the essays in this volume are united in their emphases on the complex ways in which these sources are situated in their own time, mediated historically through other texts and other readers, and read within the context of contemporary social questions and disciplinary structures. This collection will be appreciated by all scholars and students of medieval studies.
Contributors: Robert M. Stein, Sandra Pierson Prior, Nicholas Howe, Monika Otter, Sarah Spence, Charlotte Gross, Nancy F. Partner, H. Marshall Leicester, Jr., Christopher Baswell, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Peter W. Travis, Margaret Aziza Pappano, William Askins, George D. Economou, Elizabeth Robertson, Laura L. Howes, John M. Ganim, Sealy Gilles, Sylvia Tomasch, Warren Ginsberg, Joan M. Ferrante, Joseph A. Dane, and David Rosand.
Show moreRobert M. Stein is associate professor of literature at Purchase College and adjunct professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
Sandra Pierson Prior is a senior scholar at Columbia University, where she recently retired as associate professor of English and comparative literature and director of the composition program.
“Reading Medieval Culture is an apt title for a collection
celebrating the work of Robert Hanning because in his career he has
studied texts from a broad temporal range-Anglo-Saxon England to
Renaissance Italy-of many genres-histories, romances, the drama-and
some of our most significant authors-Chaucer, the Gawain-poet,
Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and Boccaccio.” —ENCOMIA:
Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature
Society
“The editors of this volume properly stress the broad range of its
contents, but there is also an underlying theme to the essays, just
as there is to the work of Robert Hanning himself. It is the
attention paid to the cultural circumstances of medieval writers
and artists and twentieth-century critics, the desire to locate
works in their contexts, that brings these critics together and
makes this a fitting tribute.” —Journal of English and Germanic
Philology
“Reading Medieval Culture is an unusual festschrift in that it is
not only a fitting 'tribute to Hanning's work and inspiration,' but
also an unusual and important scholarly volume in its own right.
The topics covered in this collection range over one thousand
years, many countries, and a wide variety of works of literature,
art, and history. Such an interdisciplinary and broad focus brings
into relief Robert Hanning's lasting imprint on medieval studies,
not least in the area of historicist literary criticism, as well as
the breadth of his own work.” —The Rocky Mountain Review of
Language and Literature
"This volume of essays marks Robert Hanning's sixty-fifth birthday
and retirement from Columbia University, with twenty articles on
topics linked to strands of his work. . . . this is a volume to dip
into; but the articles certainly attest the breadth and influence
of the dedicatee's work." —The Heythrop Journal
"The breadth and variety of this volume pay tribute to the
influential, diverse, and copious work of Robert W. Hanning in
English and comparative medieval literature. The essays are all
newly commissioned, and range from the Anglo-Saxon period to the
late fourteenth century, across a number of genres, languages, and
cultures." —Medium Ævum
"A scholarly compilation, with individual essays offering numerous
quotes, and sources, for evidence of medieval thought and way of
life, Reading Medieval Culture is a welcome contribution...."
—Midwest Book Review
"The 20 essays in this festschrift mirror the broad scholarly
interests of Robert Hanning, whose career of studying texts and
writing has influenced medieval scholarship in many ways. ...the
essays are delightful,...." —Catholic Library World
"These essays, which admirably reflect the enormous breadth of
Robert Hanning's interests and teaching, will be of considerable
value to scholars and students throughout the medieval and
Renaissance academic community. The book's usefulness is guaranteed
in part by the sheer range of subjects, from Bede to Castiglione,
but even more by the extraordinary range of scholars represented,
from the most widely respected medievalists of our day writing at
the top of their form to some of the most promising young scholars
in the field." —Linda Georgianna, University of California,
Irvine
"No rooting around in bottom drawers here! These distinguished
contributors have shown respect for their friend and mentor by
producing original, front-line work; essential pieces not to be
found anywhere else." —Paul Strohm, Columbia University
"Reading Medieval Culture gathers an all-star collection of
scholars who have written essays that are not only grounded in
sound scholarship, but also are important contributions to medieval
studies. This is the kind of collection one does not often
encounter: capacious enough to challenge all of its readers to new
insights about the Middle Ages and to present new ways of examining
materials that in many cases had begun to seem too familiar."
—Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington University
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