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Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission
Textual Magic
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Authors: Katherine Storm Hindley
Categories: Anglo-Norman literature
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"Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted
Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia
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Authors: Catalin Taranu
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In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-wr
Monstrous Fantasies
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Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 M
Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
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Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His cont