This pioneering anthology of Middle English prologues and other excerpts from texts written between 1280 and 1520 is one of the largest collections of vernacular literary theory from the Middle Ages yet published and the first to focus attention on English literary theory before the sixteenth century. It edits, introduces, and glosses some sixty excerpts, all of which reflect on the problems and opportunities associated with writing in the "mother tongue" during a period of revolutionary change for the English language.
The excerpts fall into three groups, illustrating the strategies used by medieval writers to establish their cultural authority, the ways they constructed audiences and readerships, and the models they offered for the process of reading. Taken together, the excerpts show how vernacular texts reflected and contributed to the formation of class, gender, professional, and national identity. They open windows onto late medieval debates on women's and popular literacy, on the use of the vernacular for religious instruction or Bible translation, on the complex metaphorical associations contained within the idea of the vernacular, and on the cultural and political role of the "courtly" writing associated with Chaucer and his successors.
Besides the excerpts, the book contains five essays that propose new definitions of medieval literary theory, discuss the politics of Middle English writing, the relation of medieval book production to notions of authorship, and the status of the prologue as a genre, and compare the role of the medieval vernacular to that of postcolonial literatures. The book includes a substantial glossary that constitutes the first mapping of the language and terms of Middle English literary theory. The Idea of the Vernacular will be an invaluable asset not only to Middle English survey courses but to courses in English literary and cultural history and courses on the history of literary theory.

The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520

Literature & Fiction

TAYLOR, ANDREW

Evans, Ruth

Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn

Watson, Nicholas

British & Irish

Penn State University Press

This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time. Works and writers covered include: * Chaucer * Margery Kempe * Christine de Pisan * The Katherine group of Saints' Lives * Langland's Piers Plowman * Medieval cycle drama Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.

Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect

Johnson, Leslie

Evans, Dr Ruth

Routledge

Medieval Virginities

Virgins and virginity are frequently referred to in late medieval culture and in particular in historical, medical, legal and hagiographical literature. Whilst virginity can often become linked with chastity, it can be both a permanent and temporary state within the lifecycle, and remains no less ambiguous and elusive to definition. This collection of twelve essays takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject of the manifestation of virginity in the late medieval period. Subjects explored include virginity referred to in law, Welsh prose, clerical perceptions, the virginal portrayal of Edward the Confessor, erotic mysticism, alchemy, the virgin martyr and Joan of Arc.

History

Salih, Sarah

Bernau, Edited by Anke

Europe

University of Wales Press

While existing books have concentrated on female virginity in religious and hagiographic contexts, this book represents a second generation of virginity studies, building on and questioning the current research. It accepts the plurality of virginities and represents masculine and feminine, sacred and secular, medical, religious, and legal discourses. Familiar figures like Joan of Arc are examined from fresh perspectives. Articles look at the history of the hymen, mysticism and the erotic, masculinity and knighthood, the medieval physician, the cult of St. Edmund, chastity tests, the St. Barbara Altar, the Eucharist, virginity in legal records, and the sheela-na-gig figure.

Univ of Wales Pr

Key Concepts in Development Geography (Key Concepts in Human Geography)

Key Concepts in Development Geography is a new kind of textbook that forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the human geography sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Development Geography is an introductory text that provides students with the core concepts that form contemporary research and ideas within the development geography discipline.

Business & Money

Lloyd-Evans, Sally

Potter, Rob

Conway, Dennis

Economics

Sage Publications Ltd.

This book contains ten papers read at the Third Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages in 1991. Contributors include: J Wogan-Browne (The female translator in Anglo-Norman hagiography); H Phillips (Chaucer and de Graunson); M-J Arn (Charles of Orleans: translator?); V Lawrence (Richard Whitford and translation); S Westrem (Managing style and accommodating dialect in Johannes Witte de Hese's `Itinerarius'); A Savage (Untranslateable dimensions of the anchoritic works); R Tixier (Le theologian et le poete: deux traductions en francais moderne de `The Cloud of Unknowing').

Medieval Translator IV (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)

ELLIS, Roger

Liverpool University Press

The Medieval Translator IV (Medieval and Renaissance Text and Studies : Vol 123)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Mrts

Children Caring for Parents with HIV and AIDS: Global Issues and Policy Responses

The book makes a significant contribution to the growing research evidence on children and young people with caring responsibilities ('young carers') and the impacts of HIV/AIDS on families globally, focusing on the experiences and perspectives of children that are caring for a parent with HIV in the global North and South.

Becker, Saul

Teen & Young Adult

Policy Press

This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research from the UK and Tanzania, the book presents a unique insight into the similarities and differences in children's and parents' experiences across diverse socio-economic, cultural and welfare contexts.The book makes a significant contribution to the growing research evidence on children and young people with caring responsibilities ('young carers') and the impacts of HIV and AIDS on families globally. It examines caring relationships within families affected by HIV and AIDS; the outcomes of caregiving; children's and families' resilience; the factors influencing whether children become involved in care work; and local and global policy responses. It also provides insight into the perspectives of parents living with HIV and service providers working with families.This book will be of interest to policy makers and practitioners in the field of HIV and AIDS, and to researchers, academics and students concerned with international development, social policy, human geography, childhood and youth studies, social work, health and social care, education, children's services and nursing and palliative care.

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