Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-6064-2 • Hardback • December 2007 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
Paul Maurice Clogan is Professor of English at the University of North Texas and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He is editor of The Medieval Archilleid of Statius and author of numerous articles on classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature.
Chapter 1 Abraham and the Northmen in Genesis A: Alfredian Translations and Ninth-Century Politics
Chapter 2 The Life and Times of Judas Iscariot: Form and Function
Chapter 3 Transgression and Laughter, the Scatological and Epistemological: New Insights into the Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel
Chapter 4 Expressing the Unexpressed: Silence as Emotive Performance in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Chapter 4 Pagan versus Christian Values in the Roman d'Eneas
Part 6 Review Article
Chapter 7 Theology and Images: Two Recent Studies
Part 8 Review Notices
Chapter 9 Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book
Chapter 10 Richard J. Blackwell, Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's "Tractus Syllepticus"
Chapter 10 Peter Barnet and Nancy Wu, The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture
Chapter 12 George E. Demacopoulos, Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church
Chapter 12 Robert Chazan, The Jews in Medieval Civilization
Chapter 14 Sarah Foot, Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900
Chapter 15 Anna A. Grotans, Reading in Medieval St. Gall
Chapter 16 John Henderson, The Renaissance Hospital
Chapter 17 Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday
Chapter 17 Ulrich Horst, O.P., trans., James D. Mixon, The Dominicans and the Pope
Chapter 19 Erika Langmuir, Imagining Childhood
Chapter 19 Joan Mueller, The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women
Chapter 21 John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts
Chapter 22 Nocholas Orme, Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England
Chapter 23 Burton Raffel, trans. Das Nibelunlied: Song of the Nibelungs
Chapter 24 Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Chapter 25 Justin Steinberg, Accounting for Dante
Part 26 Books Received
Medievalia et Humanistica: Beyond the Literary Ambit is particularly valuable to scholars whose work is of a similar literary focus. The authors' introduction of linguistic, artistic, historical, philosophical considerations brings new light to the interpretation of established texts. This volume ably demonstrates that literary scholars must extend their analysis of texts to include sources traditionally deemed nonliterary. The interdisciplinary nature of the essays provides an innovative model for future literary scholars. Beyond the Literary Ambit lives up to its name as a volume whose study of literary sources extends far beyond that alone, and will hopefully encourage a similarly creative study of future texts.
— Sixteenth Century Journal