Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature
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Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature by Emily Steiner
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.
"[T]his attentive and intriguing study will appeal to those interested in legal documents in relaion to medieval literature and culturesRecommended." Choice
Emily Steiner is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor (with Candace Barrington) of The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Late Medieval England (2002).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521110532 |
| ISBN 10 | 052111053X |
| Title | Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature |
| Author | Emily Steiner |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medieval Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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