Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Paperback)

Contents: The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity ? John Scattergood: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Story- Telling, Memory and ≪Trouthe≫ ? Natalie Hanna: Chaucer’s Worthiest Knight: Heroic Identity in Troilus and Criseyde ? Cultural Memory and National Identities ? Marta Miller: Negotiating the Memory of Kings and Icelandic Identity: The Ideological Complexity of Morkinskinna and Heimskringla ? Aleksandar Z. Savi?: ≪A Most Splendent Path to Jerusalem≫: Remembering the Holy Land in Medieval Serbian Hagiography (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century) ? Michael Knudson: Where Fact Meets Fiction: The Scandinavian Historical Roots of the Middle English Romance Havelok the Dane ? Emotional Identities ? Lucie Kaempfer: The Memory of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde: Identity and Emotional Temporality ? Gerald Morgan: An Aristotelian Ideal: The Beauty and Virtue of Blanche of Lancaster in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess (c. 1368) ? Scott Eaton: Confessions of a Witch- Finder: Fear and Desire in John Stearne’s A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft ? Nota Bene: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction ? Sumner Braund: Meditations for a King? King Alfred, His Memory and the Old English Soliloquies ? Seamus Dwyer: Scraping, Scribing and Shriving: The Language of Writing, Judgement and Penitence in Chaucer’s ≪Adam Scriveyn≫ ? Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England ? Rosemary Keep: Ribbons and Righteousness: Memory and Multiple Identity in the Portrait of a Preston Haberdasher and His Family ? Catherine R. Evans: Metanoia and Miserere Mei Deus: Penitential Memory in Anne Lock and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Translations of Psalm 51.