Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
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Part of the series Cambridge Companions to Culture;Cambridge companions to culture.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-317) and index.
• Introduction: medieval English culture and its companions / Andrew Galloway — Part One. Theaters of Culture: Political, Legal, Material: 1. From court to nation / Scott Waugh 2. dtThe legal revolution and the discourse of dispute in the twelfth century / Paul Hyams 3. Archaeology and post-Conquest England / David Hinton — Part Two. Cultural Ideals and Cultural Conflicts: 4. Social ideals and social disruption / Richard Kaeuper 5. ‘Celtic’ visions of England / David Dumville 6. The idea of sanctity and the uncanonized life of Margery Kempe / Rebecca Krug — Part Three. Literacies, Languages, and Literatures: 7. Visual texts in post-Conquest England / Laura Kendrick 8. Literacy, schooling, universities / Ralph Hanna 9. Anglo-Latin literature in the later Middle Ages / David Carlson 10. The vernaculars of medieval England, 1170-1350 / Elaine Treharne 11. English literary voices, 1350-1500 / David Lawton — Part Four. Legacies and Re-creations: 12. Literary reformations of the Middle Ages / Helen Cooper 13. Re-creating the Middle Ages / Clare Simmons.
• The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, religion and the history of education. Above all it looks at the literature of medieval England in Latin, French and English, plus post-medieval perspectives on the ‘Middle Ages’. In a linked series of essays experts in these areas show the complex relationships between them, building up a broad account of rich patterns of life and literature in this period. The essays are supplemented by a chronology and guide to further reading, helping students build on the unique access this volume provides to what can seem a very foreign culture — ǂc Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Great Britain — History — Medieval period, 1066-1485.
• England — Intellectual life — 1066-1485.
• English literature — Middle English, 1100-1500 — History and criticism.
• England — Civilization — 1066-1485.

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