English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages

1946 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Beatrice White ◽  
E. K. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Middle Ages

The space of time and the medievalist imaginary

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-49
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Prendergast ◽  
Stephanie Trigg
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medieval English Literature ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Middle Ages

Conventional wisdom sees medievalism occurring “after” the Middle Ages; and indeed much medievalist practice seems to support this view, as the Middle Ages are often conceptualised in spatio-temporal terms, through the fictions of time-travel and the specific trope of “portal medievalism”. But the two formations are more accurately seen as mutually constitutive. Medieval literature offers many examples of layered or multiple temporalities. These are often structured around cultural and social difference, which is figured in powerfully affective, not just epistemological terms. Several examples from medieval English literature demonstrate how medieval culture prefigures many of medievalism’s concerns with the alterity of the past.

Word as Bond in English Literature From the Middle Ages to the Restoration.

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
John P. Zomchick ◽  
J. Douglas Canfield
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Middle Ages

Chaucer - a medieval writer?

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Martina Ožbolt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Medieval English Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages

For literary historians with only few exceptions (e.g . J.W. Mackail, W.P. Ker, A.C. Spearing) Geoffrey Chaucer is unquestionably and exclusively a medieval poet. The belief that his literaryproduction undoubtedly makes part of medieval English literature seems firmly established and any doubt about it futile. In spite ofthis aprioristic attitude towards the problem of the relationship between Chaucer and the Middle Ages there are at least two major elements which may make one doubt how correct it is to take Chaucer's medievalism for grante.

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