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Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 January 2021
- ISBN 9780198870654
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages912 pages
- Size 250x175x45 mm
- Weight 1654 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 93 black-and-white halftones 113
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Short description:
The second volume 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.
This project is a major achievement, one that will be of tremendous use to scholars in the area. It succeeds in responding to the contemporary challenges to the identity of Europe as a political entity, seen most dramatically perhaps in the turmoil over the Brexit vote... It is particularly valuable for bringing out cultural differences in areas usually treated as being essentially homogeneous, and, conversely, in emphasising the power of lines of economic and literary exchange in binding together points of production not usually associated with each other.
Table of Contents:
VOLUME II
VI: Palermo to Tunis
Introduction
Palermo
Ciutat de Mallorca
The Crown of Aragon
Castile
Santiago de Compostella
Lisbon
Canaries (Fortunate Islands)
Fes
Seville and C--rdoba
Granada
Tunis
VII: Cairo to Constantinople
Introduction
Alexandria and Cairo
Jerusalem
Damascus
Sis. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Cyprus
Rhodes
Athens, Thebes, and Mystra
Thessalonica
Bursa
Constantinople
VIII: Mount Athos to Muscovy
Introduction
Mount Athos
Trnovo
Ruthenia (Lithuania-Rus)
Novgorod
Muscovy and Northeastern Rus
IX: Venice to Prague
Introduction
Venice
Zadar
Dubrovnik (Ragusa)
Buda, Pest, --buda; and Visegr--d
Cracow
Nuremberg
W--rzburg
Salzburg
Vienna
Prague
X: Nations of Europe, 1414-1418
Constance
