Vernacular aesthetics in the later Middle Ages : politics, performativity, and reception from literature to music /

Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which...

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Other Authors: Jager, Katharine W (Editor), Jager, Katharine W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Cham, Switzerland : [2019]
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
New Middle Ages
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Past Vernaculars: The Aesthetic and the Everyday, Katherine W. Jager
  • Chapter 2: The Weight of Experience: John Gower and the Peasants' Revolt, Joel D. Anderson
  • Chapter 3: 'Stonde Manlyche togedyr in Trewthe': Lyric and Rebellion Among Late Medieval Men, Katharine W. Jager
  • Chapter 4: On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern, Adin Lears
  • Chapter 5: High or Low?: Medieval English Carols as Part of Vernacular Culture, 1380-1450, Lisa Colton and Louise McInnes
  • Chapter 6: Rethinking the Passion Lyric: Verbal Devotion, Narrative Variation, and the Poetics of Comfort in Middle English Poetry, Barbara Zimbalist
  • Chapter 7: Multimodality and Memory in the Mise-en-page of Guillaume de Machaut's Mass, Kate Maxwell
  • Chapter 8: Alchemical Language: Latin and the Vernacular in the Poetry of Thomas Norton and John Gower, David Hadbawnik
  • Chapter 9: Vernacular 'Makynge,' Jack Upland, and the Aesthetics of Antfraternalism, Noëlle Phillips
  • Chapter 10: Read It and Weep: Affective and Literate Engagement in Richard Rolle's Meditations and The Book of Margery Kempe, Jessica Barr