Bestsellers and masterpieces : the changing medieval canon /: the changing medieval canon. (2022)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Bestsellers and masterpieces : the changing medieval canon /: the changing medieval canon. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Bestsellers and masterpieces : the changing medieval canon
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Heather Blurton, Dwight F. Reynolds.
- Editors:
- Blurton, Heather
Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956- - Contents:
- Introduction - Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds; ; Part I: Hanging by a thread: unique manuscripts and their place in the ‘modern’ medieval canon ; 1. Contemplating books with Usama ibn Munqidh’s Book of Contemplation – Paul M. Cobb; 2. Dons and dragons: Beowulf and ‘popular reading’ – Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver; 3. Ibn ?azm’s ?awq al-?amama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) – Boris Liebrenz; 4. 'Thirty pieces of silver': interpreting anti-Jewish imagery in the Poema de mio Cid manuscript – Ryan D. Giles; 5. ‘Let no bad song be sung of us’: fame, memory and transmission in/and the Chanson de Roland – Sharon Kinoshita; ; Part II: Medieval bestsellers: reading the ‘medieval canon’? ; 6. World literature and its discontents: reading the life of A?iqar – Daniel L. Selden; 7. The Alexander Romance in the age of scribal reproduction: the aesthetics and precariousness of a popular text – Shamma Boyarin; 8. Wisdom literature and the medieval bestsellers – Karla Mallette; 9. Lost worlds: encyclopedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud/Theodor – Christine Chism; ; Index
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 809.02
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
Best sellers -- History -- To 1500
Best books -- History -- To 1500 - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781526147479
9781526147493 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781526147486
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.709082
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