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Of Wilderness, Forest, and Garden: An Eco-Theory of Genre in Middle English Literature

Medievalists.net — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 05:42:54 +0000

I posit that the components of the environment play a role in the deployment of the narrative by shaping the characters and influencing the action.

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For the Knyʒhtys tabylle and for the Kyngges tabylle: An Edition of the Fifteenth-Century Middle English Cookery Recipes in London, British Library’s MS Sloane 442

Medievalists.net — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:22:24 +0000

The present thesis offers an edition of some fifteenth century Middle English cookery recipes, more specifically those of the Sloane 442 manuscript (MS Sloane 442), located at the British Library, London. The cookery recipes of this collection were most likely meant for the tables of the upper classes

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Teaching Tolkien’s Translations of Medieval Literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo and Pearl

Medievalists.net — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 04:53:32 +0000

J.R.R. Tolkien, the medievalist who became the father of modern fantasy literature, translated many poems out of Old English, Old Norse and Middle English into carefully versified modern English

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How to Speak Middle English

Medievalists.net — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:07:20 +0000

This four-part series of videos created by Youtuber Thatoneguyinlitclass gives a quick guide to speaking in Middle English.

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Horticultural Landscapes in Middle English Romance

Medievalists.net — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 01:04:38 +0000

Gardens played a significant role in the lives of European peoples living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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Monstrous Women in Middle English Romance

Medievalists.net — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:53:37 +0000

I analyze Middle English narratives including the early sixteenth‐century translation of the prose Melusine, the Constance tale as adapted by Chaucer and Gower, and appearances of Medea in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Caxton’s translation of the History of Jason to discover the ways these narratives use female monstrosity—in literal and figurative form—to dramatize the anxieties arising in a patriarchal society that defines the female as a slightly aberrant category of human

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Guilt and Creativity in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:50:55 +0000

I argue that as Chaucer develops his own expansive, questioning poetics in The House of Fame and The Canterbury Tales, he problematises the principle of allegory on which the legitimacy of literary discourse was primarily based in medieval culture and the final fragments of The Canterbury Tales see Chaucer struggling, increasingly, to reconcile the boldness and independence of his poetic vision with the demands of his faith.

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Amending the Ascetic: Community and Character in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:44:53 +0000

Among the most eligible saints for such treatment, Mary of Egypt deserves particular consideration: her popularity is evidenced by over a hundred extant Greek manuscripts of her Life and her uniquely prominent position in the Lenten liturgical cycle in the Eastern Church.

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Medieval Misogyny and Gawain’s Outburst against Women in “‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:08:06 +0000

The view has been gaining ground of late that the Gawain of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a knight renowned as 'Pat fyne fader of nurture' (1. 919) and as 'so cortays and coynt' of his 'hetes' (1. I525), degenerates at the moment of leave-taking from the Green Knight, his erstwhile host, to the level of a churl capable of abusing the ladies of that knight's household (11.2411 -28).

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A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Medievalists.net — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:39:44 +0000

The famous line from that modern romance- "A kiss is just a kiss"- is the message the Gawain-poet gave his listeners six centuries ago.

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