In the Margins of the Predestination Controversy: The Manuscript Context of the Hincmar Mock Epitaph

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-74
Author(s):  
Adrian Papahagi
Keyword(s):  
Manuscript Context

scholarly journals Hij die ons allen zonder dwaling verlichtte

1970 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Sien De Groot
Keyword(s):  
Manuscript Context ◽  
The Relationship

This article offers an overview of the book epigrams in the manuscripts of Ps.-Dionysiusthe Areopagite. lt explores which epigrams regularly occur in these manuscripts andwhich ones are rather exceptional, with special attention to the relationship between thepoems and the main texts of the Corpus Areopagiticum. Equally, it argues for the importanceof studying the epigrams within their manuscript context. As such, the findings areconnected to and supported by the methodology of the so-called New or Material Philology.Lastly, the article offers incentives to study the reception of Ps.-Dionysius throughthe book epigrams preserved next to the very texts.

Teen Moms: Violence, Consent, and Embodied Subjectivity in Middle English Pregnancy Laments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carissa M Harris
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Unplanned Pregnancy ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Embodied Subjectivity ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Manuscript Context

Abstract This article examines power and coercion in five Middle English and Middle Scots lyrics voiced by pregnant, abandoned singlewomen. It focuses on the language of consent and embodiment in these pregnancy laments, arguing that they both protest and normalize masculine violence in heterosexual erotic relations, highlight the various factors that undermine young singlewomen’s consent, articulate acute dissatisfaction with gendered power inequalities, and demonstrate the devastating consequences of sexual ignorance. It explores the different ways that we can read these lyrics when considering issues of voice, audience, performance, and manuscript context. The essay closes by linking the popularity of medieval unplanned pregnancy narratives to modern-day reality television programming, arguing that the trans-historical popularity of these stories merits further exploration.

scholarly journals In Defence of the Textual Integrity of the Old English Resignation

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Helena W. Sobol
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Old English Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Manuscript Context ◽  
Devotional Texts

Abstract Bliss & Frantzen’s (1976) paper against the previously assumed textual integrity of Resignation has been a watershed in research upon the poem. Nearly all subsequent studies and editions have followed their theory, the sole dissenting view being expressed by Klinck (1987, 1992). The present paper offers fresh evidence for the textual unity of the poem. First examined are codicological issues, whether the state of the manuscript suggests that a folio might be missing. Next analysed are the spellings of Resignation and its phonology, here the paper discusses peculiarities which both differentiate Resignation from its manuscript context and connect the two hypothetical parts of the text. Then the paper looks at the assumed cut-off point at l.69 to see if it may provide any evidence for textual discontinuity. Finally the whole Resignation, seen as a coherent poem, is placed in the history of Old English literature, with special attention being paid to the traditions of devotional texts and the Old English elegies.

Brittany Erin Schorn, Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry. Trends in Medieval Philology, 34. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017, viii, 198 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
Adam Oberlin
Keyword(s):  
Old Norse ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Manuscript Context

This slim volume, 155 pages apart from the introduction and back matter, is the revised version of a recent dissertation on the dialogic and discursive exchange of wisdom in the Gnomic genre of Old Norse-Icelandic Eddic poetry. As the author notes in the introduction (Ch. 1), this genre is well attended in the scholarly literature and many studies have addressed similar or adjacent topics. Five chapters after the introduction describe and investigate narrative and discursive aspects of wisdom poetry informed by a pre-Christian past but located firmly within a post-conversion manuscript context.

‘Britones a Troianis duxerunt originem’: Historia Meriadoci, De ortu Waluuanii and their Galfridian companion-text in BL MS Cotton Faustina B VI

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-97
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Crofts
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
The Third ◽  
Manuscript Context

Abstract When a reader encounters the Latin romances Historia Meriadoci and De ortu Waluuanii in BL MS Cotton Faustina B VI, the romances are only the first two in a set of three texts copied by the same scribe on the same occasion. The third text, following directly on De ortu Waluuanii, is an abstract of books 1–6 of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum. While valuable in its own right as a witness to the DGB’s use and manuscript circulation, the abstract is presented and investigated here for what it may tell us about the Latin romances’ own transmission and reception, which have long been shrouded in mystery. As I argue, the abstract’s juxtaposition with the romances is no accident, and figures importantly in the romances’ presentation. Much as the opening stanzas of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight set the stage for King Arthur, in fact, the Latin synopsis begins with the fall of Troy and Brutus’ foundation of Britain before (much more expansively than the Gawain-poet) recounting the war and wrack of early British history, concluding with Merlin’s revelation to Vortigern of the warring dragons. In this and other ways this Galfridian abstract causes the Latin romances to quicken with correspondences to Geoffrey’s work; this effect may even suggest for the romances a date of composition not distant from that of the DGB itself. By exploring the interpretive possibilities of this widened manuscript context, the present paper seeks to initiate a re-examination of these mysterious Latin romances in relation to their Galfridian companion-text. This article concludes with an edition of the abstract itself, which until now has not been edited or translated.

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