Lydgate matters : poetry and material culture in the fifteenth century / edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, Lisa H., 1971-

Denny-Brown, Andrea.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?--Criticism and interpretation.

Lydgate, John.

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?--Aesthetics.

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?.

Material culture in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Aesthetics.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Physical Description:

223 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.

Contents:

1 Lydgate and London's Public Culture / Claire Sponsler 13

2 Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycome and Chychevache / Andrea Denny-Brown 35

3 Sovereignty and Sewage / Paul Strohm 57

4 Lydgate's Worst Poem / Maura Nolan 71

5 "Markys...off the Workman": Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man / Lisa H. Cooper 89

6 Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters / Michelle R. Warren 113

7 St. George and the "Steyned Halle": Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers / Jennifer Floyd 139

8 Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption / John M. Ganim 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-214) and index.

ISBN:

1403976740

9781403976741

OCLC:

122715418