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LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volumepursuesacrosstheregionsand languagesofmedieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with theestablishedliteraryculturesofLatin,Greek,andChurchSlavonic, the volume’s contributors describe the processes of emergence, con solidation, and institutionalization that make itpossible tospeak ofa literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomenathroughthelensoflater,nationaldevelopments;theresult is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language,literature,andterritoryinthespacewecall‘Europe’. isProfessorofMedievalandEarlyModernGerman Literature at the University of Cambridge. His publications span medievalromance,lyric,chronicle,andreligiousliterature.Hismost recent book is Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern European Devotional Writing: From Bonaventure to Luther (). is Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at theUniversityofCambridge,haspublishedwidelyonmedievalculture andthehistoryofmodernsport,andmostrecentlyheldanHonorary FellowshipattheHistorischesKolleg,Munich. FoundingEditor AlastairMinnis, Yale University General Editor Daniel Wakelin, University ofOxford Editorial Board Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University ofLondon Zygmunt G.Barański, University of Cambridge Christopher C. Baswell, Barnard College and Columbia University Mary Carruthers,New YorkUniversity Rita Copeland, University ofPennsylvania Roberta Frank, Yale University Marissa Galvez, Stanford University AlastairMinnis, Yale University JocelynWogan Browne,Fordham University This series of critical books seeks to cover the whole area of literature written in the major medieval languages the main European vernaculars, and medieval LatinandGreek duringtheperiodc. .Itschiefaimistopublishand stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relation tothecontemporarycultureand learning which fostered them. Recent titles inthe series AndrewM.Richmond Landscape inMiddle English Romance:The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World David G. LummusThe City ofPoetry: Imaginingthe Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy Richard Matthew Pollard Imaginingthe MedievalAfterlife Christiania WhiteheadTheAfterlife of StCuthbert: Place, Textsand Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 Orietta Da RoldPaper inMedieval England:From Pulp to Fictions Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt (eds.) The Roman de la Rose and Thirteenth-CenturyThought George Corbett Dante’s ChristianEthics:Purgatory andIts Moral Contexts AndrewKraebelBiblicalCommentaryandTranslationinLaterMedievalEngland: Experiments in Interpretation Robert J.Meyer Lee Literary Value and Social Identity inthe Canterbury Tales Glenn D.Burger and Holly A. Crocker (eds.) Medieval Affect,Feeling, and Emotion Lawrence Warner Chaucer’sScribes: London Textual Production, 1384 1432 Acomplete listof titles inthe seriescan be found atthe end ofthe volume. LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES MARK CHINCA UniversityofCambridge CHRISTOPHER YOUNG UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#-/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volumepursuesacrosstheregionsand languagesofmedieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with theestablishedliteraryculturesofLatin,Greek,andChurchSlavonic, the volume’s contributors describe the processes of emergence, con solidation, and institutionalization that make itpossible tospeak ofa literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomenathroughthelensoflater,nationaldevelopments;theresult is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language,literature,andterritoryinthespacewecall‘Europe’. isProfessorofMedievalandEarlyModernGerman Literature at the University of Cambridge. His publications span medievalromance,lyric,chronicle,andreligiousliterature.Hismost recent book is Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern European Devotional Writing: From Bonaventure to Luther (). is Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at theUniversityofCambridge,haspublishedwidelyonmedievalculture andthehistoryofmodernsport,andmostrecentlyheldanHonorary FellowshipattheHistorischesKolleg,Munich. FoundingEditor AlastairMinnis, Yale University General Editor Daniel Wakelin, University ofOxford Editorial Board Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University ofLondon Zygmunt G.Barański, University of Cambridge Christopher C. Baswell, Barnard College and Columbia University Mary Carruthers,New YorkUniversity Rita Copeland, University ofPennsylvania Roberta Frank, Yale University Marissa Galvez, Stanford University AlastairMinnis, Yale University JocelynWogan Browne,Fordham University This series of critical books seeks to cover the whole area of literature written in the major medieval languages the main European vernaculars, and medieval LatinandGreek duringtheperiodc. .Itschiefaimistopublishand stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relation tothecontemporarycultureand learning which fostered them. Recent titles inthe series AndrewM.Richmond Landscape inMiddle English Romance:The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World David G. LummusThe City ofPoetry: Imaginingthe Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy Richard Matthew Pollard Imaginingthe MedievalAfterlife Christiania WhiteheadTheAfterlife of StCuthbert: Place, Textsand Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 Orietta Da RoldPaper inMedieval England:From Pulp to Fictions Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt (eds.) The Roman de la Rose and Thirteenth-CenturyThought George Corbett Dante’s ChristianEthics:Purgatory andIts Moral Contexts AndrewKraebelBiblicalCommentaryandTranslationinLaterMedievalEngland: Experiments in Interpretation Robert J.Meyer Lee Literary Value and Social Identity inthe Canterbury Tales Glenn D.Burger and Holly A. Crocker (eds.) Medieval Affect,Feeling, and Emotion Lawrence Warner Chaucer’sScribes: London Textual Production, 1384 1432 Acomplete listof titles inthe seriescan be found atthe end ofthe volume. LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES MARK CHINCA UniversityofCambridge CHRISTOPHER YOUNG UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#-/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. LITERARY BEGINNINGS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volumepursuesacrosstheregionsand languagesofmedieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with theestablishedliteraryculturesofLatin,Greek,andChurchSlavonic, the volume’s contributors describe the processes of emergence, con solidation, and institutionalization that make itpossible tospeak ofa literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomenathroughthelensoflater,nationaldevelopments;theresult is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language,literature,andterritoryinthespacewecall‘Europe’. isProfessorofMedievalandEarlyModernGerman Literature at the University of Cambridge. His publications span medievalromance,lyric,chronicle,andreligiousliterature.Hismost recent book is Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern European Devotional Writing: From Bonaventure to Luther (). is Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at theUniversityofCambridge,haspublishedwidelyonmedievalculture andthehistoryofmodernsport,andmostrecentlyheldanHonorary FellowshipattheHistorischesKolleg,Munich. FoundingEditor AlastairMinnis, Yale University General Editor Daniel Wakelin, University ofOxford Editorial Board Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University ofLondon Zygmunt G.Barański, University of Cambridge Christopher C. Baswell, Barnard College and Columbia University Mary Carruthers,New YorkUniversity Rita Copeland, University ofPennsylvania Roberta Frank, Yale University Marissa Galvez, Stanford University AlastairMinnis, Yale University JocelynWogan Browne,Fordham University This series of critical books seeks to cover the whole area of literature written in the major medieval languages the main European vernaculars, and medieval LatinandGreek duringtheperiodc. .Itschiefaimistopublishand stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relation tothecontemporarycultureand learning which fostered them. Recent titles inthe series AndrewM.Richmond Landscape inMiddle English Romance:The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World David G. LummusThe City ofPoetry: Imaginingthe Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy Richard Matthew Pollard Imaginingthe MedievalAfterlife Christiania WhiteheadTheAfterlife of StCuthbert: Place, Textsand Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 Orietta Da RoldPaper inMedieval England:From Pulp to Fictions Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt (eds.) The Roman de la Rose and Thirteenth-CenturyThought George Corbett Dante’s ChristianEthics:Purgatory andIts Moral Contexts AndrewKraebelBiblicalCommentaryandTranslationinLaterMedievalEngland: Experiments in Interpretation Robert J.Meyer Lee Literary Value and Social Identity inthe Canterbury Tales Glenn D.Burger and Holly A. Crocker (eds.) Medieval Affect,Feeling, and Emotion Lawrence Warner Chaucer’sScribes: London Textual Production, 1384 1432 Acomplete listof titles inthe seriescan be found atthe end ofthe volume.
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