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Volume 1: A Literary History, 1348-1418
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 January 2021
- ISBN 9780198870647
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages816 pages
- Size 245x175x40 mm
- Weight 1498 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 93 black-and-white halftones 113
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Short description:
The first of this two-volume edition brings together leading scholars to offer the first full-scale literary history of Europe. Spanning the period 1348-1418, the volumes demonstrate in unprecedented detail what the free movement of European literature achieved through its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power.
MoreLong description:
This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes: the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented 'ground zero' experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then as now, and disputes over whom truly 'belongs' on European soil are explored, if not solved, through writing. A war that would last for a century convulsed much of western Europe. Divisions between Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianities endured, and in 1378 the West divided again between popes of Avignon and Rome. Arabic literary cultures linked Fes and Granada to Jerusalem and Damascus; Persian and Turkish writings began to flourish south and west of Constantinople; Jewish intellectuals treasured Arabic texts as well as Hebrew writings; Armenian colophons proved unique. From 1414-18 western nations gathered to heal their papal schism while also exchanging literary, humanist, and musical ideas; visitors from the East hoped for commitment to wider European peace. Freed from nation state historiography, as bequeathed by the nineteenth century, these 82 chapters freshly assess the free movement of European literature in all its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power.
These modern examples, again instances of literary production and response that have to be read in terms of places and layerings, illustrate the key aspect that the book so wonderfully brings to our attention: literature is produced in places that are saturated with text, character, and experience; and these texts migrate, get archived, become parts of libraries and collections, and generate readers and texts in these very places, welcoming itinerant materials and engaging with them. What happens to the reader who dwells in this richness is both a defamiliarization, with regard to established temporal and topographical patterns, and a newfamiliarity with the landscapes and the configurations that make literatures and literary imagination emerge.
Table of Contents:
Volume I
General Introduction
I: Paris to Béarn
Introduction
Paris
Chaalis
Valenciennes (Hainault)
Reims
Lusignan
Dijon, Burgundy
Savoy and the Marquisate of Saluces
Toulouse
Béarn
II: Calais to London
Introduction
Calais
Canterbury
Oxford
Berkeley Castle
Chester and Cheshire
York and Yorkshire
Lichfield
Leicester
Lynn, Walsingham, Norwich
London, Southwark, Westminster
III: St Andrews to Finistère
Introduction
St Andrews and Aberdeen
Kirkwall, Orkney
Iceland
Dublin
Lough Derg
Lecan and Ballymote
Ceredigion: Strata Florida and Llanbadarn Fawr
Glasney College, Penryn, Cornwall
Finistère
IV: Basel to Danzig
Introduction
Basel
Strasbourg
Cologne
Brussels
Bruges
The Hague
Deventer and Zwolle
Lübeck
Vadstena
Turku
Danzig
V: Avignon to Naples
Introduction
Avignon
Lombardy: Milan and Pavia
Florence
Siena
Rome
Naples
