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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Contzen, Eva von (Editor), Simpson, James, 1954- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2022].
Series:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:
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.