The Numerical Universe of the Gawain-Pearl Poet, Beyond Phi by Edward I. Condren

Julian Wasserman

doi:10.1353/art.2003.0011

The Numerical Universe of the "Gawain-Pearl" Poet: Beyond "Phi". Edward I. Condren

Speculum ◽

10.1017/s0038713400006904 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 80 (1) ◽

pp. 208-210

Author(s):

Chauncey Wood

Keyword(s):

Pearl Poet ◽

Edward I

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The Treaty of Northampton (1290): A Scottish Charter of Liberties?

The Scottish Historical Review ◽

10.3366/shr.2007.0051 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 86 (1) ◽

pp. 1-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wendy B. Stevenson

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Written Expression ◽

Traditional Practice ◽

Detailed Consideration ◽

Constituent Part ◽

Community Or ◽

Per Se ◽

Edward I

Although little detailed consideration has been given to the Treaty of Northampton of 1290 by Scottish historians, it seems to have been implicitly accepted as the sort of treaty which might have been expected in connection with the marriage of two independent rulers at that time. This is in spite of the fact that throughout the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the traditional practice of the rulers of the Angevin and Plantagenet dominions was to rule each constituent part according to its own law and customs. This article examines the reasons why the Scots were not prepared to rely on tradition but insisted on a written promise from Edward I that Scotland would remain independent of England. It also suggests that the treaty is more than a written expression of traditional practice. It has a number of specific clauses which, it is argued, give the treaty the character of a charter of liberties. These were intended to prevent the imposition on the Scots of particular aspects of Plantagenet rule in England which burdened its subjects much more severely than the rule of Scottish kings had burdened the Scots. The Scots' wish to remain independent after the proposed union of the crowns and their struggle to maintain that independence after the death of the Maid are generally seen as manifestations of a sense of community or regnal solidarity. The terms of the Treaty of 1290 suggest that it was not just from a desire to be a separate political entity per se that the Scots fought during the so-called Wars of Independence but also because the Scots were anxious to avoid the more oppressive aspects of Plantagenet rule even before they had experience of this after Edward I's conquest of 1296.

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An Account of the Provisions Received by Robert de Segre, Clerk of Edward I of England, in Flanders and Brabant in the Autumn of 1297

Bulletin de la Commission royale d histoire Académie royale de Belgique ◽

10.3406/bcrh.2003.1045 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 169 (1) ◽

pp. 37-49

Author(s):

Bryce Lyon ◽

Mary Lyon

Keyword(s):

Edward I

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Ethan Campbell, The Gawain-Poet and Fourteenth-Century English Anti-Clerical Tradition. Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications / Western Michigan University, 2018, pp. 238.

Mediaevistik ◽

10.3726/med012018_427 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 427-429

Author(s):

Jane Beal

Keyword(s):

Fourteenth Century ◽

Dual Language ◽

Pearl Poet ◽

Modern Culture ◽

Sir Gawain ◽

Link Type ◽

Western Michigan University ◽

Facsimile Edition ◽

Scientific Rhetoric ◽

Gawain Poet

In the past four years, there has been a flurry of valuable new work on the poems of the Gawain-poet (also known as the Pearl-poet), which includes new editions, translations, monographs, pedagogical studies, and online resources. Among the editions and translations are Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron’s excellent facsimile edition and translation of Cotton Nero A.x (Folio Society, 2016), Simon Armitage’s verse translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl (W.W. Norton, 2008 and 2016 respectively) and, I allow myself to mention, my own dual-language edition-translation of Pearl with supplementary materials for collegiate teaching (Broadview, forthcoming). Academic monographs include Piotyr Spyra’s Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet (Ashgate, 2014), Cecelia Hatt’s God and the Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre (Boydell & Brewer, 2015), my Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre (Routledge, 2017), and Lisa Horton’s Scientific Rhetoric of the Pearl-Poet (Arc Humanities Press, forthcoming). Editors Mark Bradshaw Busbee and I have published Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl (MLA, 2017), which contains insightful pedagogical essays from several professors. The journal Glossator provides a complete commentary on each section of Pearl, available online (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://glossator.org/2015/03/30/glossator-9-2015-pearl">https://glossator.org/2015/03/30/glossator-9-2015-pearl</ext-link>/), and additional resources are available at “Medieval Pearl” (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://medievalpearl.wordpress.com">https://medievalpearl.wordpress.com</ext-link>). Now Ethan Campbell’s The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition joins the ranks, making a meaningful contribution to our understanding of the poet in his cultural milieu.

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