Europe

Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418

Buch | Softcover

912 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-887065-4 (ISBN)

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The second volume of this two-volume edition brings together leading scholars to offer the first full-scale literary history of Europe. Spanning the period 1348-1418, the volumes demonstrate in unprecedented detail what the free movement of European literature achieved through its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power.

This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes: the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented 'ground zero' experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then as now, and disputes over whom truly 'belongs' on European soil are explored, if not solved, through writing. A war that would last for a century convulsed much of western Europe. Divisions between Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianities endured, and in 1378 the West divided again between popes of Avignon and Rome. Arabic literary cultures linked Fes and Granada to Jerusalem and Damascus; Persian and Turkish writings began to flourish south and west of Constantinople; Jewish intellectuals treasured Arabic texts as well as Hebrew writings; Armenian colophons proved unique. From 1414-18 western nations gathered to heal their papal schism while also exchanging literary, humanist, and musical ideas; visitors from the East hoped for commitment to wider European peace. Freed from nation state historiography, as bequeathed by the nineteenth century, these 82 chapters freshly assess the free movement of European literature in all its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power.

David Wallace, who studied at York (BA), Perugia, and Cambridge (Ph.D.), has been Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, since 1996, with visiting positions at Jerusalem, London, Leipzig, Melbourne, and Princeton. He has travelled and lectured widely across Europe, and also north America, Australia, and Japan, and has made a series of radio documentaries for the BBC. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Premodern Places and The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.

VOLUME II
VI: Palermo to Tunis
Introduction
Palermo
Ciutat de Mallorca
The Crown of Aragon
Castile
Santiago de Compostella
Lisbon
Canaries (Fortunate Islands)
Fes
Seville and Córdoba
Granada
Tunis
VII: Cairo to Constantinople
Introduction
Alexandria and Cairo
Jerusalem
Damascus
Sis. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Cyprus
Rhodes
Athens, Thebes, and Mystra
Thessalonica
Bursa
Constantinople
VIII: Mount Athos to Muscovy
Introduction
Mount Athos
Trnovo
Ruthenia (Lithuania-Rus)
Novgorod
Muscovy and Northeastern Rus
IX: Venice to Prague
Introduction
Venice
Zadar
Dubrovnik (Ragusa)
Buda, Pest, Óbuda; and Visegrád
Cracow
Nuremberg
Würzburg
Salzburg
Vienna
Prague
X: Nations of Europe, 1414-1418
Constance

Erscheinungsdatum	23.03.2021
Zusatzinfo	93 black-and-white halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 250 mm
Gewicht	1654 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-887065-5 / 0198870655
ISBN-13	978-0-19-887065-4 / 9780198870654
Zustand	Neuware