Walsingham in literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modernity / / edited by Dominic Janes, Gary Waller

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: English literature - History and criticism; Religion and literature - England - History; Sacred space in literature; Literature and society - England - History
• Soggetto geografico: Little Walsingham (England)
• Classificazione: 18.05
• Altri autori: JanesDominic WallerGary F <1945-> (Gary Fredric)
• Note generali: "First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Landscape and the sacred -- pt. 2. The body and sexuality -- pt. 3. Cultural memory : architecture, literature, music.
• Sommario/riassunto: Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so has it received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader cultural significance. Contributors to this book focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had for over six hundred years. The collection's essays consider connections between landscape and the sacred, the body and sexuality and Walsingham's place in literature, music and, more broadly, especially since the Reformation, in the construction of cultural memory. The historical range of the essays includes Walsingham's rise to prominence in the later Middle Ages, its destruction during the English Reformation, and the presence of uncanny echoes and traces in early modern English culture, including poems, ballads, music and some of the plays of Shakespeare. Contributions also examine the cultural dynamics of the remarkable revival of Walsingham as a place of pilgrimage and as a cultural icon in the Victorian and modern periods. Hitherto, scholarship on Walsingham has been almost entirely confined to the history of religion. In contrast, contributors to this volume include internationally known scholars from literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology and musicology as well as theology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Walsingham in literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modernity
• ISBN: 1-315-23443-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154568103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II