Beschreibung:
This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate inlight of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here withcritical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on thecusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to theheightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of latemedieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emergingfields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a wholeexplores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also inour own.
Lydgate Matters; L. H. Cooper and A. Denny-Brown Lydgate and London's Public Culture; C. Sponsler Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache; A. Denny-Brown Sovereignty and Sewage; P. Strohm Lydgate's Worse Poem; M. Nolan 'Markys...Off the Workman': Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man; L. H. Cooper Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters; M. R. Warren St. George and the 'Steyned Halle': Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers; J. Floyd Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption; J. M. Ganim Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When; D. Vance Smith