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This collection of original essays honors the influential work of Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a wide range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and from Chaucer's age to nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism, including a rich section on Italian Renaissance humanism and visual art.
Drawing from a variety of primary sources, the essays in this volume are united in their emphases on the complex ways in which these sources are situated in their own time, mediated historically through other texts and other readers, and read within the context of contemporary social questions and disciplinary structures. This collection will be appreciated by all scholars and students of medieval studies.
Contributors: Robert M. Stein, Sandra Pierson Prior, Nicholas Howe, Monika Otter, Sarah Spence, Charlotte Gross, Nancy F. Partner, H. Marshall Leicester, Jr., Christopher Baswell, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Peter W. Travis, Margaret Aziza Pappano, William Askins, George D. Economou, Elizabeth Robertson, Laura L. Howes, John M. Ganim, Sealy Gilles, Sylvia Tomasch, Warren Ginsberg, Joan M. Ferrante, Joseph A. Dane, and David Rosand.
“Reading Medieval Culture is an apt title for a collection celebrating the work of Robert Hanning because in his career he has studied texts from a broad temporal range-Anglo-Saxon England to Renaissance Italy-of many genres-histories, romances, the drama-and some of our most significant authors-Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and Boccaccio.” —ENCOMIA: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society
Robert M. Stein is associate professor of literature at Purchase College and adjunct professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
Sandra Pierson Prior is a senior scholar at Columbia University, where she recently retired as associate professor of English and comparative literature and director of the composition program.