Robert M. Stein, Sandra Pierson Prior (Editors)

Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning.

University of Notre Dame, 2005. First edition. 0268041113 ix/505 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 6.25” x 9.25”, is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear, with crease to rear flap. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.

"This collection of original essays honors the influential work of Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a wide range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and from Chaucer's age to nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism, including a rich section on Italian Renaissance humanism and visual art."

Contents:

“From Bede's World to "Bede's World" by Nicholas Howe;

“Prolixitas temporum : Futurity in Medieval Historical Narratives” by Monika Otter;

“What's Love Got To Do with It? : Abbot Suger and the Renovation of Saint-Denis” by Sarah Spence;

“Time and Nature in Twelfth-Century Thought : William of Conches, Thierry of Chartres, and the "New Science" by Charlotte Gross;

“Christina of Markyate and Theodora of Huntingdon : Narrative Careers” by Nancy F. Partner;

“The Voice of the Hind : The Emergence of Feminine Discontent in the Lais of Marie de France” by H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.;

“Troy, Arthur, and the Languages of "Brutis Albyoun"” by Christopher Baswell;

“The Hunger for National Identity in Richard Coer de Lion” by Suzanne Conklin Akbari;

“The Body of the Nun's Priest, or, Chaucer's Disseminal Genius” by Peter W. Travis;

“"Leve Brother" : Fraternalism and Craft Identity in the Miller's Prologue and Tale” by Margaret Aziza Pappano;

“All That Glisters : The Historical Setting of the Tale of Sir Thopas” by William Askins;

“Chaucer and Langland : A Fellowship of Makers” by George D. Economou;

“"Raptus" and the Poetics of Married Love in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale and James I's Kingis Quair” by Elizabeth Robertson;

“Chaucer's Criseyde : The Betrayer Betrayed” by Laura L. Howes;

“Chaucer and Free Love” by John M. Ganim;

“Professionalizing Chaucer : John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert, and The Canterbury Tales as Cultural Capital” by Sealy Gilles and Sylvia Tomasch;

“Gli scogli neri ed il niente che c'è : Dorigen's Black Rocks and Chaucer's Translation of Italy” by Warren Ginsberg;

“Women in the Shadows of “The Divine Comedy” by Joan M. Ferrante;

“Linear Perspective and the Obliquities of Reception” by Joseph A. Dane;

“Una linea sola non stentata : Castiglione, Raphael, and the Aesthetics of Grace” by David Rosand.