Medievalists.net » Lydgate http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/john-lydgate-and-the-poetics-of-fame/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/john-lydgate-and-the-poetics-of-fame/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:17:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37317 Read our interview with Mary C. Flannery about her new book

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/john-lydgate-and-the-poetics-of-fame/feed/ 0 Monastic Vernacularities – Syon Abbey Society session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/17/monastic-vernacularities-syon-abbey-society-session-at-the-international-congress-on-medieval-studies/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/17/monastic-vernacularities-syon-abbey-society-session-at-the-international-congress-on-medieval-studies/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:39:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35766 Video of three papers given at the International Congress on Medieval Studies

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/17/monastic-vernacularities-syon-abbey-society-session-at-the-international-congress-on-medieval-studies/feed/ 0 The Virtues of Balm in the Late Medieval Period http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-virtues-of-balm-in-the-late-medieval-period/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-virtues-of-balm-in-the-late-medieval-period/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:01:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35475 The nature of balsam and its qualities, especially the ability to act as an extraordinarily effective preservative, demands further inquiry. Is this Lydgate’s invention, or instead a reflection of late medieval ideas about a particular natural substance?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-virtues-of-balm-in-the-late-medieval-period/feed/ 0 Writers in religious orders and their lay patrons in late medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/06/writers-in-religious-orders-and-their-lay-patrons-in-late-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/06/writers-in-religious-orders-and-their-lay-patrons-in-late-medieval-england/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:27:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29102 Critics have long recognized that the religious orders played an important part in the production of vernacular devotional literature in late medieval England. The orders were well suited to this task. Reading and writing were an important part of the life of those who lived under a rule.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/06/writers-in-religious-orders-and-their-lay-patrons-in-late-medieval-england/feed/ 0 Text and context: author and audience in John Lydgate’s Life of St Edmund http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/text-and-context-author-and-audience-in-john-lydgate%e2%80%99s-life-of-st-edmund/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/text-and-context-author-and-audience-in-john-lydgate%e2%80%99s-life-of-st-edmund/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:02:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28388 Ostensibly John Lydgate’s verse Life of St Edmund is a characteristic, if lengthy, example of late-medieval hagiography. The Life was commissioned by Abbot Curteys of Bury St Edmunds, where Lydgate was a monk, to mark King Henry VI’s lengthy sojourn at the abbey between Christmas 1433 until Easter 1434.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/text-and-context-author-and-audience-in-john-lydgate%e2%80%99s-life-of-st-edmund/feed/ 0 Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/01/trojan-wars-genre-and-the-politics-of-authorship-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/01/trojan-wars-genre-and-the-politics-of-authorship-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-england/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:47:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28293 In the Middle Ages, Troy was not ancient history. As a living myth that continued to evolve along with the English nation, Troy functioned as a site for examining England’s cultural and political questions.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/01/trojan-wars-genre-and-the-politics-of-authorship-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-england/feed/ 0 Not Quite One of the Guys: Pantysyllya as Virgin Warrior in Lydgate’s Troy Book http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/01/not-quite-one-of-the-guys-pantysyllya-as-virgin-warrior-in-lydgates-troy-book/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/01/not-quite-one-of-the-guys-pantysyllya-as-virgin-warrior-in-lydgates-troy-book/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:36:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24750 Not Quite One of the Guys: Pantysyllya as Virgin Warrior in Lydgate’s Troy Book Hennequinn, M. Wendy Medieval Feminist Forum 34, no. 1 (2002) Abstract In her book Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, Barbara Ehrenreich tells us, “War is, in fact, one of the most rigidly ‘gendered’ activities known to […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/01/not-quite-one-of-the-guys-pantysyllya-as-virgin-warrior-in-lydgates-troy-book/feed/ 0 A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/30/a-norfolk-gentlewoman-and-lydgatian-patronage-lady-sibylle-boys-and-her-cultural-environment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/30/a-norfolk-gentlewoman-and-lydgatian-patronage-lady-sibylle-boys-and-her-cultural-environment/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:25:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24688 A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment Bale, A. Medium Aevum, 78(2), (2009) Abstract The poetry of John Lydgate (c.1370–1449/50) is often discussed in terms of the poet’s illustrious and powerful patrons: literary commissions for royal figures such as Henry V (Troy Book), Henry VI (numerous mummings and pageant poems), […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/30/a-norfolk-gentlewoman-and-lydgatian-patronage-lady-sibylle-boys-and-her-cultural-environment/feed/ 0 ‘Among other, I, that am falle in age’: Lydgate, Plural Singularity and Fifteenth-Century Testaments http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/13/among-other-i-that-am-falle-in-age-lydgate-plural-singularity-and-fifteenth-century-testaments/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/13/among-other-i-that-am-falle-in-age-lydgate-plural-singularity-and-fifteenth-century-testaments/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:28:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=15300 ‘Among other, I, that am falle in age’: Lydgate, Plural Singularity and Fifteenth-Century Testaments Block, Sam Marginalia, Vol. 10 Cambridge Yearbook (2008-2009) Abstract In 1447, William Stevenes of Somerset wrote a will making ten bequests to ‘the fabric’ of religious buildings, and sixteen to clergy. Such bequests are common in fifteenth-century wills. Eber Carle Perrow suggests this […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/13/among-other-i-that-am-falle-in-age-lydgate-plural-singularity-and-fifteenth-century-testaments/feed/ 0 Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/18/truth-translation-and-the-troy-book-women-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/18/truth-translation-and-the-troy-book-women-2/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:27:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=13991 Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women Shutters, Lynn Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 32(1) (2001) Abstract When one thinks of the great writers of Middle English verse, John Lydgate is not likely to come to mind. Lydgate’s vast corpus of writing has often been relegated to a somewhat embarrassing footnote in […]

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