TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,Stephen
TI  - Medieval literature and social politics: studies of cultures and their contexts 
T2  - Variorum collected studies
SN  - 9781003052548
AV  - PN682.S7 K55 2021
U1  - 809/.93358207 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Civilization, Medieval, in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
N2  - "Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer's readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur', and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003052548
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -