Remembering the Medieval Present : Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Explorations in Medieval Culture Series ; v.11 .
- Explorations in Medieval Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents -- Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O'Camb -- Chapter 1 -- The Legacy of King Edgar in the Laws of Archbishop Wulfstan -- Nicole Marafioti -- Chapter 2 -- Exile and Migration in the Vernacular Lives of Edward "the Confessor" -- Erin Michelle Goeres -- Chapter 3 -- Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred's Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past -- Jay Paul Gates -- Chapter 4 -- The Hermitic Topos: "Selling" Shared Sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English Audiences -- Maren Clegg Hyer -- Chapter 5 -- Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries -- Cynthia Turner Camp -- Chapter 6 -- Peace Weaving and Gold Giving: Anglo-Saxon Queenship in Havelok the Dane -- Larissa Tracy -- Chapter 7 -- Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale -- Kathleen Smith -- Chapter 8 -- The Case of Poema Morale: Old English Homiletic Influence in Early Middle English Verse -- Carla Marķa Thomas -- Chapter 9 -- The Familiar Wisdom of Treasured Friends and the Landscape of Conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred -- Brian T. O'Camb -- Chapter 10 -- The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy -- Eric Weiskott -- Afterword -- Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Kate Hurley -- Bibliography -- General Index.
By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.