Bestsellers and masterpieces : the changing medieval canon /: the changing medieval canon. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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