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- ISBN 9781843845928
- Weight: 502g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.
The body of short Middle English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once attractive andchallenging for modern readers and scholars. This collection of essays explores a range of Middle English lyrics from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, both religious and secular in flavour. It directs attention to the intrinsic qualities of these short poems and at the same time explores their capacity to illuminate important aspects of medieval cultural practice and production: forms of piety, contemporary conditions and events, the historyof feelings and emotions, and the relationships of image, song, performance and speech to the written word. The issues covered in the essays include editing lyrics; lyric manuscripts; affect; visuality; mouvance and transformation; and the relationships between words, music and speech. A particularly distinctive feature of the collection is that most of the essays take as a point of departure a specific lyric whose particularities are explored within wider-ranging critical argument.
JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. Christiania Whitehead is Privat Docent and senior research fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland ANNIE SUTHERLAND is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Old and Middle English, Somerville College. HETTA ELIZABETH HOWES is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature at City, University of London and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. Christiania Whitehead is Privat Docent and senior research fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
