Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture : : Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn / / ed. by Valerie B. Johnson, Kara L. McShane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Coletti, Theresa,; Haught, Leah,; Huber, Emily Rebekah,; Johnson, Valerie B.,; Knapp, James A.,; Lupack, Alan,; McShane, Kara L.,; Norako, Leila K.,; Peck, Russell A.,; Pitard, Derrick,; Price, Merrall Llewelyn,; Rogers, Cynthia A.,; Salisbury, Eve,; Schieberle, Misty,; Staley, Lynn,; Stanbury, Sarah,
• HerausgeberIn: Johnson, Valerie B.,; McShane, Kara L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 365 p.)

Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Reimagining Medieval Studies: The Career of Thomas Hahn -- Part I Marginalized Texts, Traditions, and Voices -- Chapter 2 Racialized Outcasts: Non-White Bodies and the Construction of the Outlaw-Hero in Modern Robin Hood Film -- Chapter 3 The Mongols of Middle English Literature -- Chapter 4 Lybeaus Desconus: Illegitimacy and the Spurious Mother -- Chapter 5 Thomas Becket and the Pardoner’s Problem: Eunuchry and Healing on the Road to Canterbury -- Chapter 6 Anxious Appearance: Illustrating Dissimulation and the Case of the Counterfeit Crank -- Chapter 7 Acallam na Senórach and Border-Discourse -- Chapter 8 Ecomedieval Revenge and Justice in “Robyn and Gandelyn” -- Chapter 9 Outcast Lyrics: Responsive Reading in the Findern Manuscript -- Part II: Networks of Connection -- Chapter 10 Decoding the Dead: Funerary Inscriptions in St. Erkenwald and The Book of John Mandeville -- Chapter 11 Alexander the Great: A Study of Legitimacy, Futility, and the Problem of Getting Home Safely in Gower’s Confessio Amantis -- Chapter 12 Richard Coer de Lyon and Invented Identities -- Chapter 13 The Crow’s “Cokkow!”: Bird Debates and Chaucer’s “Manciple’s Tale” -- Chapter 14 Perceval’s Mare -- Chapter 15 Gower’s Aristotelian Legacy: Reading Responsibility in the Confessio Amantis and the Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod -- Chapter 16 “The Prioress’s Tale” and Vernacular Devotion -- Index