Bestsellers and masterpieces the changing medieval canon

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ‘modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blurton, Heather (Editor), Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2022, ©2022
Series:Manchester medieval literature and culture
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: pt. 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' / Erica Weaver -- 3. Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-hamama (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 -- pt. II Medieval bestsellers: reading the 'medieval canon'? -- 6. World literature and its discontents: reading the Life of Ahiqar / 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 medieval bestsellers / Karla Mallette -- 9. Lost worlds: encyclopaedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud/Theodor / Christine Chism 
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