LEADER 04532nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910821600903321 005 20240418030319.0 010 $a0-8122-0158-2 010 $a0-585-43621-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201581 035 $a(CKB)111056486693916 035 $a(OCoLC)51322053 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748396 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101415 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108850 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101415 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10038007 035 $a(PQKB)10683321 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26819 035 $a(DE-B1597)449010 035 $a(OCoLC)979576053 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442050 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748396 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442050 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486693916 100 $a20011107d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlliterative revivals$b[electronic resource] /$fChristine Chism 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51054-7 311 0 $a0-8122-3655-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-316) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Alliterative Romance: Improvising Tradition --$t2. St. Erkenwald and the Body in Question --$t3. Heady Diversions: Court and Province in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --$t4. Geography and Genealogy in The Wars of Alexander --$t5. Profiting from Precursors in The Siege of Jerusalem --$t6. King Takes Knight: Signifying War in the Alliterative Morte Arthure --$t7. Grave Misgivings in De Tribus Regibus Mortuis, The Awntyrs off Arthure, and Somer Sunday --$t8. Conclusion: The Body in Question-Again --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAlliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and acknowledging potentially threatening figures from the medieval past-pagan judges, primeval giants, Greek knights, Jewish forefathers, Egyptian sorcerers, and dead ancestors. In addressing the ways alliterative poems centralize history-the dangerous but profitable commerce of the present with the past-Chism's book shifts the emphasis from the philological questions that have preoccupied studies of alliterative romance and offers a new argument about the uses of alliterative poetry, how it appealed to its original producers and audiences, and why it deserves attention now. Alliterative Revivals examines eight poems: St. Erkenwald, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wars of Alexander, The Siege of Jerusalem, the alliterative Morte Arthure, De Tribus Regibus Mortuis, The Awntyrs off Arthure, and Somer Sunday. Chism both historicizes these texts and argues that they are themselves obsessed with history, dramatizing encounters between the ancient past and the medieval present as a way for fourteenth-century contemporaries to examine and rethink a range of ideologies.These poems project contemporary conflicts into vivid, vast, and spectacular historical theaters in order to reimagine the complex relations between monarchy and nobility, ecclesiastical authority and lay piety, courtly and provincial culture, western Christendom and its easterly others, and the living and their dead progenitors. In this, alliterative romance joins hands with other late fourteenth-century literary texts that make trouble at the borders of aristocratic culture. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aAlliteration 606 $aEnglish poetry$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aAlliteration. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.109 700 $aChism$b Christine$01613150 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821600903321 996 $aAlliterative revivals$93942307 997 $aUNINA