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Alliteration. --- English language --- English poetry --- Versification --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Versification --- English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

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Readers today no longer relish sustained allegorical narratives the way they did in the Middle Ages, when the art of ‘other-speaking’ was as dominant in poetic discourse as it was elsewhere. Yet we live in an age which, following the postmodernist dictum that any sign can only refer to other signs, has declared all language liable to the ‘allegorical condition’. This paradox has led the author to question the epistemological assumptions underlying allegories composed in an era which, conversely, favoured the oblique form of expression while professing its belief in the divine Logos as the ultimate ground of all meaning. If art and doctrine appear so divided on the subject of allegory in our own day, then might not the relationship between allegorical writing and interpretation in the Middle Ages have been more complex than is often assumed? How solid are the grounds on which Michel Foucault has based his distinction between early modernity and its past - a time when, he claims, the languages of the world were still perceived to make up “the image of the truth”? The present study addresses these and related questions through a heuristic comparison between historically and culturally different approaches to narrative allegory. In her analysis of the late-fourteenth century dream poem Piers Plowman by William Langland, Kasten sets up a critical dialogue between this extraordinary work and Walter Benjamin's study of German baroque allegory, The Origin of German Tragic Drama . Far from serving the narrow purposes of didacticism, she contends, Piers Plowman invites a reconsideration of the very grounds on which (post-) modernity has tried to distance itself from its cultural past.

Allegory. --- Dreams in literature. --- Dreams --- Visions --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Dreams. --- Visions. --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- Christian poetry, English --- Christian poetry, Middle English --- English Christian poetry, Middle --- Middle English Christian poetry --- English poetry --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Dreaming --- Subconsciousness --- Sleep --- Middle English --- Langland, William, --- Piers Plowman (Langland, William)

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Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- anno 1200-1499 --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Groot-Brittannië --- Handschriften --- Manuscrits --- Art, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, English --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- manuscripts [documents] --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- English illumination of books and manuscripts --- Medieval art

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Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John Capgrave-Austin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East Anglian society, and noted author. Nowhere are the tensions and anxieties of this critical period, spanning the close of the medieval and the dawn of early modern eras, more eloquently conveyed than in Capgrave's works. John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century is the first book to explore the major themes of Capgrave's writings and to relate those themes to fifteenth-century political and cultural debates. Focusing on Capgrave's later works, especially those in English and addressed to lay audiences, it teases out thematic threads that are closely interwoven in Capgrave's Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism, gender, and social responsibility. It refutes the still-prevalent view of Capgrave as a religious and political reactionary and shows, rather, that he used traditional genres to promote his own independent viewpoint on some of the most pressing controversies of his day, including debates over vernacular theology, orthodoxy and dissent, lay (and particularly female) spirituality, and the state of the kingdom under Henry VI. The book situates Capgrave as a figure both in the vibrant literary culture of East Anglia and in European intellectual history. John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century offers a fresh view of orthodoxy and dissent in late medieval England and will interest students of hagiography, religious and cultural history, and Lancastrian politics and society.

Capgrave, John, --- Authors, English --- Theologians --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Christian theologians --- Scholars --- Authors, English - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Biography --- Theologians - England - Biography --- Capgrave, John --- Capgrave, John, - 1393-1464 --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1066-1485 --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called 'green' terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.

Nature in literature. --- English literature --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval. --- Literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Middle English. --- Middle English literature --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499 --- Sir Orfeo. --- earth. --- eco-criticism. --- fields. --- gardens. --- natural world. --- sea. --- trees. --- wilds.