Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity

Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity / edited by Michael D.J. Bintley, Martin Locker, Victoria Symons, Mary Wellesley.

This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has emphasized the period as one of change and development through reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The Medieval period is popularly thought of as a dark age, before the flowerings of the Renaissance ushered a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bintley, Michael D.J (Editor), Locker, Martin (Editor), Symons, Victoria (Editor), Wellesley, Mary (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:The New Middle Ages
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Literature, Medieval.
Medieval philosophy.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 ‘Introduction: Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity’, Victoria Symons, Mary Wellesley, Michael D. J. Bintley
  • 2  ‘Beacons of Belief: Trees and Religion in Britain from Prehistory to the Later Middle Ages’, Michael D. J. Bintley
  • 3  ‘The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Decorative Continuity in Early Anglo-Saxon England’, Melissa Herman
  • 4 ‘Art History in the Dark Ages: (Re)considering Space, Stasis and Modern Viewing Practices in Relation to Anglo-Saxon Imagery’, Meg Boulton
  • 5 ‘Set in Stone or Food for Worms: the Stasis of Writing in the Exeter Book Riddles’, Victoria Symons
  • 6 ‘Stitched Up? Cynewulf, Authorial Attribution and Textual Stasis in Anglo-Saxon England’, Tom Birkett
  • 7 ‘The House of Stilled Time: Stasis and Eternity in Anglo-Saxon Churches’, Michael Shapland
  • 8 ‘There and Back Again: Creating the Pilgrimage Experience in Text’ , Martin Locker
  • 9 ‘“But that will not be the end of the calamity”: Why Emphasize Viking Disruption?’, Katherine Cross
  • 10 ‘Configuring Stasis: the Appeal to Tradition in the English Reign of Cnut the Great’, Simon C. Thomson
  • 11 ‘Sleeping Dogs and Stasis in the Franklin’s Tale’, Richard North
  • 12 ‘Static “Menyng” and Transitory “Melodye” in Lydgate’s Seying of the Nightingale’, Mary Wellesley
  • 13 ‘Dress, Fashion and Anti-Fashion in the Medieval Imagination’, Louise Sylvester
  • Index.

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