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Harley manuscript geographies: Literary history and the medieval miscellany (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
340
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This study applies the methodologies of literary geography to the unique contents of a codex known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced in provincial Herefordshire by a scribe whose literary generation was wiped out in the Black Death of 134851. It contains a diverse set of writings: love-lyrics and devotional texts, political songs and fabliaux, saints lives, courtesy literature, bible narratives, travelogues, and more. These works alternate between languagesMiddle English, Anglo-Norman, and Latinbut have been placed in mutually illuminating conversation. Despite its significance as a record of an in-between period of literary history, stretching from the Norman Conquest to the plague era, Harley 2253 has never before been the subject of a monographic study. Harley manuscript geographies orients readers to this compelling material by describing the phenomenon of the medieval miscellany in textual and codicological terms. It explores how this fragmentary work keeps being sutured into whole-ness by commentary upon it, while examining the different genres, topics, and social groupings it contains. Ultimately, the book lays the groundwork for approaching this compilation via the interpretive lens that cultural geography provides. Readers from literary history, medieval studies, cultural geography, gender studies, Jewish studies, book history, and more, will profit from the encounter.

✦ Table of Contents


Front matter
Contents
Acknowledgements
A note on the presentation of texts
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Harley manuscript geographies
Harley Lyrics and Hereford clerics: the implications of mobility
Captives among us: Harley 2253 and the Jews of medieval Hereford
Histoire imparfaite: the counterfactual lessons of Gilote et Johane
Dying with Harley 2253: last lyric things
Epilogue
Ye goon to … Hereford? Regional devotion and England’s other St Thomas
Appendix Harley manuscript contents
Bibliography
Index


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