Football in Medieval England and in Middle-English Literature

1929 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. P. Magoun
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Middle English Literature

Liturgy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Holsinger
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Middle English Literature ◽  
English Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early English ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Common Prayer

In medieval England, liturgy was a looming presence in so many aspects of English literary production. Yet many fundamental questions concerning the relationship between liturgy and vernacular literary production have remained unaddressed. This article explores the liturgical character of Middle English literature and how liturgy links the pre- and post-Conquest eras. In pursuing a liturgical history of early English writing, it outlines a detheologizing vision of liturgy and its objects. It also discusses the phenomenology of the modern theologized category of the “service book,” how previous theologizing habits of liturgical understanding have affected the Middle English religious lyric, and the writing and dissemination of the Book of Common Prayer.

Literature and Law in Medieval England

PMLA ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 941-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Alford
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Middle English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Piers Plowman ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Middle English Literature ◽  
Literature And Law

The use of law in Middle English literature is not extraneous but grows naturally out of a profound faith in law as the tie that binds all things, in heaven and in earth: all law—divine, natural, and human—is, in essence, one law. Hence, Christ's victory over Satan is dramatized in the language of Westminster, the promise of salvation is seen in terms of the emerging law of contracts, and our place in heaven is treated as real estate. The process is seen most clearly in the Château d'Amour, Piers Plowman, Pearl, and “Quia Amore Langueo.” With the disintegration of the belief in a single, coherent law, however, the legal metaphor lost most of its force and economy. As heirs of that disintegration, we must be careful not to impose it unwittingly on Medieval literature and thus fragment a vision that was whole.

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