Dana Oswald, Monsters, Gender, and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature. (Gender in the Middle Ages, 5.) Woodbridge, Eng., and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2010. Pp. viii, 227 plus 8 black-and-white images. $95. ISBN: 978-1843842323.

Speculum ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-262
Author(s):  
Jeff Massey
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Prendergast ◽  
Stephanie Trigg

Conventional wisdom sees medievalism occurring “after” the Middle Ages; and indeed much medievalist practice seems to support this view, as the Middle Ages are often conceptualised in spatio-temporal terms, through the fictions of time-travel and the specific trope of “portal medievalism”. But the two formations are more accurately seen as mutually constitutive. Medieval literature offers many examples of layered or multiple temporalities. These are often structured around cultural and social difference, which is figured in powerfully affective, not just epistemological terms. Several examples from medieval English literature demonstrate how medieval culture prefigures many of medievalism’s concerns with the alterity of the past.


1993 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Martina Ožbolt

For literary historians with only few exceptions (e.g . J.W. Mackail, W.P. Ker, A.C. Spearing) Geoffrey Chaucer is unquestionably and exclusively a medieval poet. The belief that his literaryproduction undoubtedly makes part of medieval English literature seems firmly established and any doubt about it futile. In spite ofthis aprioristic attitude towards the problem of the relationship between Chaucer and the Middle Ages there are at least two major elements which may make one doubt how correct it is to take Chaucer's medievalism for grante.


1993 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Martina Ožbolt

For literary historians with only few exceptions (e.g . J.W. Mackail, W.P. Ker, A.C. Spearing) Geoffrey Chaucer is unquestionably and exclusively a medieval poet. The belief that his literaryproduction undoubtedly makes part of medieval English literature seems firmly established and any doubt about it futile. In spite ofthis aprioristic attitude towards the problem of the relationship between Chaucer and the Middle Ages there are at least two major elements which may make one doubt how correct it is to take Chaucer's medievalism for grante.


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