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Last Words The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England

Sobecki, Sebastian
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198790778
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
396 gr
Høyde
208 mm
Bredde
143 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Sobecki, Sebastian

Biografisk notat

Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on literature from the fourteenth century to the Reformation, especially scribes, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; and law, travel, and politics in literature. He is the author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and The Sea and Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2008). His other books include Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (OUP, 2019), edited with Anthony Bale, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018), with John Scattergood, and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, edited with Candace Barrington. He edits the journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer.

Last Words The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England

Sobecki, Sebastian
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Sobecki, Sebastian
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In Last Words, Sebastian Sobecki brings together two fields of inquiry that have rarely if ever been linked: manuscript studies and philosophy of the mind ... The only chapter in which there is no wholly new archival discovery is that on Lydgate.

Jane Griffiths, Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Sebastian Sobecki's ambitious monograph, Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England, challenges our perspective of reading late medieval texts and authors as remnants of the distant past, disconnected as we are from the language and contexts of fifteenth-century literature. Instead, Sobecki argues, we should view these texts—by Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Ashby—as closer contemporary audiences would have, 'created for a specific audience with direct access to the author and a full understanding of a text's fabric of allusions' (p. 7).

Kate Ash-Irisarri et al., The Year's Work in English Studies

Sobecki's close readings of Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate show the tensions that remain within social identities. His detailed archival and codicological work adds significantly to the investigations of contemporary scholars, for whom late medieval textual culture is not just a medium for transmitting works but an environment for composing, reading, and understanding them.

Robert R. Edwards, Speculum

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When texts have been severed from the primary audiences that could fill in any such blanks, then present-day scholars are left to make the attempt. That is the task Sobecki has set himself, and which he is pursuing with admirable energy and enthusiasm.

Alastair Minnis, Medium Ævum

No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. Last Words captures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt to extract themselves from the context of a lived life. Driven by archival research and literary inquiry, this book reveals where John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series. It includes documentary breakthroughs and archival discoveries, and introduces a new life record for Hoccleve, identifies the author of a significant political poem, and reveals the handwriting of John Gower and George Ashby. Through its investments in archival study, book history, and literary criticism, Last Words charts the extent to which medieval English literature was shaped by the social selves of their authors.
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Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians--Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward--reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.
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The Indexical Self: An Introduction 1: Ecce patet tensus: The Trentham Manuscript, In Praise of Peace, and John Gower's Autograph Hand 2: The Series: Thomas Hoccleve's Year of Mourning 3: Parting Shots: Richard Caudray's Libelle of Englyshe Polycye 4: Lydgate's Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode 5: The Signet Self: George Ashby's Autograph Writing Afterword: Pragmatic Selves
Les mer
Reassesses late medieval English literature Includes new archival breakthroughs: new life records, authorial attributions, and handwriting identification Presents a new theory of medieval authorship Reveals how John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series
Les mer
Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on literature from the fourteenth century to the Reformation, especially scribes, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; and law, travel, and politics in literature. He is the author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and The Sea and Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2008). His other books include Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (OUP, 2019), edited with Anthony Bale, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018), with John Scattergood, and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, edited with Candace Barrington. He edits the journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Les mer
Reassesses late medieval English literature Includes new archival breakthroughs: new life records, authorial attributions, and handwriting identification Presents a new theory of medieval authorship Reveals how John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series
Les mer

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In Last Words, Sebastian Sobecki brings together two fields of inquiry that have rarely if ever been linked: manuscript studies and philosophy of the mind ... The only chapter in which there is no wholly new archival discovery is that on Lydgate.

Jane Griffiths, Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Sebastian Sobecki's ambitious monograph, Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England, challenges our perspective of reading late medieval texts and authors as remnants of the distant past, disconnected as we are from the language and contexts of fifteenth-century literature. Instead, Sobecki argues, we should view these texts—by Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Ashby—as closer contemporary audiences would have, 'created for a specific audience with direct access to the author and a full understanding of a text's fabric of allusions' (p. 7).

Kate Ash-Irisarri et al., The Year's Work in English Studies

Sobecki's close readings of Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate show the tensions that remain within social identities. His detailed archival and codicological work adds significantly to the investigations of contemporary scholars, for whom late medieval textual culture is not just a medium for transmitting works but an environment for composing, reading, and understanding them.

Robert R. Edwards, Speculum

Se alle

When texts have been severed from the primary audiences that could fill in any such blanks, then present-day scholars are left to make the attempt. That is the task Sobecki has set himself, and which he is pursuing with admirable energy and enthusiasm.

Alastair Minnis, Medium Ævum

No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. Last Words captures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt to extract themselves from the context of a lived life. Driven by archival research and literary inquiry, this book reveals where John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series. It includes documentary breakthroughs and archival discoveries, and introduces a new life record for Hoccleve, identifies the author of a significant political poem, and reveals the handwriting of John Gower and George Ashby. Through its investments in archival study, book history, and literary criticism, Last Words charts the extent to which medieval English literature was shaped by the social selves of their authors.
Les mer
Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians--Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward--reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.
Les mer
The Indexical Self: An Introduction 1: Ecce patet tensus: The Trentham Manuscript, In Praise of Peace, and John Gower's Autograph Hand 2: The Series: Thomas Hoccleve's Year of Mourning 3: Parting Shots: Richard Caudray's Libelle of Englyshe Polycye 4: Lydgate's Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode 5: The Signet Self: George Ashby's Autograph Writing Afterword: Pragmatic Selves
Les mer
Reassesses late medieval English literature Includes new archival breakthroughs: new life records, authorial attributions, and handwriting identification Presents a new theory of medieval authorship Reveals how John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series
Les mer
Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on literature from the fourteenth century to the Reformation, especially scribes, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; and law, travel, and politics in literature. He is the author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and The Sea and Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2008). His other books include Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (OUP, 2019), edited with Anthony Bale, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018), with John Scattergood, and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, edited with Candace Barrington. He edits the journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Les mer
Reassesses late medieval English literature Includes new archival breakthroughs: new life records, authorial attributions, and handwriting identification Presents a new theory of medieval authorship Reveals how John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198790778
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
396 gr
Høyde
208 mm
Bredde
143 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Sobecki, Sebastian

Biografisk notat

Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on literature from the fourteenth century to the Reformation, especially scribes, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; and law, travel, and politics in literature. He is the author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and The Sea and Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2008). His other books include Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (OUP, 2019), edited with Anthony Bale, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018), with John Scattergood, and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, edited with Candace Barrington. He edits the journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer.

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