Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages
Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature
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- Author: Joseph Taylor, University of Alabama, Huntsville
- Date Published: December 2022
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009182119
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Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship – imaginative, material, and political – between North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic of desire and derision of the North by the rest of country. Joseph Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism.
Read more- Confronts the most popular and oft-cited literary examples of medieval northern consciousness including William of Malmesbury's histories, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Towneley Plays, and offers a rare vigorous historical and philological analysis that unfolds their importance to the development of both the English North-South divide and the medieval English nation
- Offers original arguments about both canonical and non-canonical texts, enabling readers to better understand the pervasive presence of the North-South divide in medieval England and, further, reconsider the relevance of non-canonical literature to our study of the period
- Carries out sustained and detailed analyses of several genres of medieval literature (historiography, ballad, fabliau, courtly and popular romance, religious cycle plays, political poems), exposing readers to different genres and their political contents and effects
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‘Highly recommended.’ A. L. Kaufman, Choice
See more reviews‘… a vital contribution to a growing body of scholarship on medieval English regional identities …’ Emily Dolmans, Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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- Date Published: December 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009182119
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. William of Malmesbury, Bede, and the problem of the north
2. The north-south divide in the medieval English universities
3. Chaucer's northern consciousness in the Reeve's Tale
4. Centralization, resistance, and the north of England in A Gest of Robyn Hode
5. The Towneley plays, the pilgrimage of grace and northern Messianism.
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