Fiction and Figuration in High and Late Medieval Literature. Marianne Pade, Anders Cullhed, Anders Hallengren, and Brian Møller Jensen, eds. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, Supplementa 47. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2016. 122 pp. €32.

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 1184-1185
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Long
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval Literature

scholarly journals Aspekte zur Beschreibung einer literarischen Region im Mittelalter1

2012 ◽  
pp. 163-188
Author(s):  
Paul Martín Langner
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Late Medieval Literature

The concept of regionalism reemerged in literary studies discussions a few years ago. The following essay discusses this concept in the context of late medieval literature. In the essay the author is applying three new approaches to the notion of regionalism, which are based on the studies of both language and literature. On the basis of the discussed results, the dychotomy of two structures is introduced: ‚Abgeschlossenheit‘ of a region and its ‚Durchlässigkeit‘.

Authorial Work

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kellie Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Medieval Literature

Michel Foucault declared that authors became subject to punishment and discourse became transgressive. In the late fourteenth century, both “discourse” and the very act of writing itself were perceived as transgressive, a notion that resulted in a new kind of authorial self-representation in England. By the late fourteenth century, writing had assumed an ambiguous role: while it was the means by which social norms regarding labor were communicated and enforced, it could also be the object of such enforcement. This article explores how late medieval literature came to have authors by looking at literary production in the context of contemporary discourses about daily work. It considers how post-plague labor laws forced authors to situate their work not just between the venerable poles of imitatio and inventio but also between the social polarities of idleness and industry, and how post-plague writers meditated on the value of literary work in the marketplace of work more generally. Using Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales as a lens, it discusses the strategies employed by late medieval writers in positioning their work in a literary landscape characterized by explicit understandings of the material value of labor.

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