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Harley Manuscript Geographies: Literary History and the Medieval Miscellany

Harley Manuscript Geographies: Literary History and the Medieval Miscellany

Birkholz, Daniel

Hardcover

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 1526140403
ISBN13: 9781526140401
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced upon England's Welsh March, by a scribe whose generation died in the Black Death. It contains a diverse set of writings: love-lyrics and devotional literature, political songs and fabliaux, saints' lives, courtesy texts, bible stories and travelogues. These works alternate between languages (Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Latin) but operate in conversation with one another. The introduction explores how this fragmentary miscellany keeps being sutured into 'whole'-ness by commentary upon it. Individual chapters examine different genres and social groupings and demonstrate that there are many Harley landscapes still waiting to be discovered. It will be of great value to those studying literary history, medieval studies, cultural geography, gender studies, Jewish studies and book history.

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