Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
The Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
1st Edition
By Jane Beal
December 10, 2019
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of ...
Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Loewen, Robin Waugh
August 23, 2018
This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. ...
Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature: From Cædmon to Malory
1st Edition
By Lawrence Besserman
November 08, 2013
This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate ...