Authors: Lauryn S. Mayer
ISBN-13: 9780415970600, ISBN-10: 0415970601
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Lauryn Mayer received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She currently teaches in the Department of English at Washington and Jefferson College.
This book focuses on the use of the past in two senses. First, it looks at the way in which medieval texts from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries discussed the past: how they presented history, what kinds of historical narratives they employed, and what anxieties gathered around the practice of historiography. Second, this study examines twentieth-century interactions with this textual past, and the problems that have arisen for critics trying to negotiate this radically different textual culture. Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue with contemporaneous canonical works such as Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, the Morte Darthur, Beowulf, and The Battle of Maldon.
1 | The Metrical Chronicle family and manuscript practice | 21 |
2 | The manuscript challenge to ideas of medieval nationalism | 37 |
3 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscripts and heroic poetry | 75 |
4 | Caxton, Chaucerian manuscripts, and the creation of an Auctor | 121 |