Research Catalog

Title

Literary beginnings in the European Middle Ages / edited by Mark Chinca, Christopher Young.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chinca, Mark
• Young, Christopher, 1967-

Description

xi, 339 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regions and languages of medieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with the established literary cultures of Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic, the volume's contributors describe the processes of emergence, consolidation, and institutionalization that make it possible to speak of a literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomena through the lens of later, national developments; the result is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language, literature, and territory in the space we call 'Europe'"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in medieval literature.

Subject

• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• European literature > History and criticism
• European literature
• Literature, Medieval

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Scandinavia / Roberta Frank -- Irish and Welsh / Barry Lewis -- English / Laura Ashe -- Spain / Marina S. Brownlee -- French / David F. Hult -- Dutch / Frits van Oostrom -- Occitan / Sarah Kay -- German / Mark Chinca and Christopher Young -- Italian / K.P. Clarke -- Czech and Croatian / Julia Verkholantsev -- Greek / Panagiotis A. Agapitos -- East Slavonic / Simon Franklin.

Call Number

JFE 22-4706

ISBN

• 9781108477642
• 110847764X
• 9781108702461
• 1108702465

LCCN

2021057077

OCLC

1263663441

Title

Literary beginnings in the European Middle Ages / edited by Mark Chinca, Christopher Young.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Cambridge studies in medieval literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Chinca, Mark, editor.

Young, Christopher, 1967- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Literary beginnings in the European Middle Ages Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108776912 (DLC) 2021057078

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4706