Enlistment : lists in medieval and early modern literature /
Unearths the cultural significance of medieval and early modern lists from Chaucer's and Spenser's epic catalogues of trees, to household vocabulary, to genealogies and bestiaries.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Enlistment as poetic stratagem / Eva von Contzen and James Simpson
- "He should not overlook anything that could ever be of significance": knowledge and vocabulary in Gerefa / Alexis Kellner Becker
- In the space of a list-Widsith's global modernism / Andrew James Johnston
- Listing divine names: a study in liturgical form / Kathryn Mogk Wagner
- Naming the children of Jacob: the shape of negative theology in the Benjamin Minor / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
- Out of Eden and back again: following the flow of concepts, categories, and lists in the four rivers of Paradise / Martha Rust
- Epic lists: the matter of Troy and the catalogue form in Middle English literature / Eva von Contzen
- Performing generic exhaustion: implosive households in Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour / Wolfram R. Keller
- The epic tree catalogue from Chaucer to Spenser / Ingo Berensmeyer
- What's in a list? Erasmus, Cromwell, Bale / Alex Davis
- Reformation lists: syntax, the sacred, and the production of junk / James Simpson.