The Provocations of Orthodoxy: Lydgate and Late-Medieval Books of Hours in Literary Culture

Exemplaria ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-19
Author(s):  
Jessica Brantley
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Books Of Hours

Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Sexon
Keyword(s):  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Books Of Hours ◽  
And Gender

This chapter argues that Christ’s body can be read as a non-binary body in Late Medieval imagery through analysis of images of Christ’s wounds that appear in Books of Hours and prayer rolls. Wounds opened up the gendered representation of the holy body to incorporate aspects of femininity, masculinity and aspects that signify as neither. Through a reading of Christ’s wounds as potential markers of the genderqueer, I argue that an individual’s identification with the non-binary body of Christ could result in identification as a non-binary body for the viewing patron. Genderqueer interpretation of Christ’s body shows how non-binary visual interpretation more broadly is useful for understanding the complexity of medieval bodies and gender.

Textual Encounters in an Age of Transition: Thomas More’s Translations between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Humanist’ Literary Culture

Moreana ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (Number 185- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Gabriela Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Complex Variety ◽  
Critical Attention

Unlike the martyr, the politician and the humanist, Thomas More, the translator, has received little critical attention to date. Nonetheless, a remarkable number of More’s writings, especially during the early 1500s, were either direct translations or indirect transformations of foreign literary traditions. It is precisely his output as a translator that reveals More to be a transitional figure, who was as thoroughly aware of the trends in late medieval and early humanist literature in the vernacular as he was closely involved with the new humanist learning brought into England through Erasmus and his circle. By examining some of More’s early translations and imitations and placing them within the context of similar contemporary works, this article intends to present the rapidly changing literary culture of the early Tudor years as a crucial period of transition, whose complex variety can hardly be grasped through the simple binary opposition between ‘medieval’ and ‘humanist’.

scholarly journals Introduction: Medieval India and the Paramāra Dynasty

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
MICHAEL WILLIS ◽  
ADAM HARDY
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Central India ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Family ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
Medieval India

This collection of essays focuses on the history, literary culture and legacy of the Paramāra dynasty. Ruling from central India, with collateral branches of the family at Candrāvatī, Vāgaḍa, Bhinmāl and Jālor, the Paramāras constituted an important force in the Indian medieval world. They flourished between the tenth and twelfth centuries and throughout their history entertained high political ambitions. In particular Vākpati Muñja (circa 973–95) and Bhoja (circa 1000–55) undertook military campaigns that sought to establish the Paramāras as a paramount power in India. Although frustrated in these aims, they are remembered nonetheless as a great dynasty, representative if not paradigmatic of the vibrant civilisation of the late medieval age.

scholarly journals A Curious Harpour in Helle : An Edition of the Commentary on the Orpheus Metre of De consolatione philosophiae in Manuscript Thott 304 2º

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aapo Takala
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
English Verse ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Late Medieval England

Aapo Takala: A Curious Harpour in Helle. An Edition of the Commentary on the Orpheus Metre of De consolatione philosophiae in Manuscript Thott 304 2º   The article presents an edition of the commentary on the Orpheus Metre in Ms. Thott 304 2º. The manuscript is located at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and it contains an English verse translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae and an accompanying prose commentary. The manuscript, the translation, and the commentary are rare examples of literary culture in late medieval England. The manuscript can be dated to the early fifteenth century and it probably is the copy made specifically for the patron of the translation, the noblewoman Elizabeth Berkeley. In the sixteenth century it was used as exemplar for a printed edition of the translation: the printer’s markings can still be seen in the manuscript. The commentary is the most comprehensive medieval English commentary on De consolatione philosophiae, and only extant in this manuscript and in the sixteenth-century printed edition.   The manuscript has previously been studied in a handful of articles and one Master’s thesis. Thus far, there has been no extensive research on the commentary. In addition to the edition, the article includes a discussion of the manuscript’s background and an overview of previous research on it.  

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