Transmission and Transformation in the Middle

Nine case studies of cultural or textual transformation in the medieval period are presented here. Written by some of Ireland's leading younger medievalists, these essays study cultural and literary transmission over the course of eight centuries in medieval England and Ireland. Integrating perspectives from literary scholarship, philology, and cultural history, these essays both address specific moments of cultural transformation and build an overall image of the dynamic engagements of individual medieval authors with the texts and traditions they inherited. Contributors: Christine Thijs (UCD), Letty Nijhuis (TCD), Emma Nic Carthaigh (UCC), Jason Harris (UCC), Carrie Griffin (UCC), Brendan OÃ?Â?Ã?ÂConnell (TCD), Niamh Pattwell (UCD), Frances McCormack (NUIG), Kathleen Cawsey (Wilfrid Laurier U.), Kenneth Rooney (UCC).

Close and clumsy or fanatically faithful : medieval translators on literal translation	p. 15
Surviving the flood : revenants and antediluvian lore in medieval Irish texts	p. 40
'Summum menn wile [th]incan syllic [th]is to gehyrenne' : Aelfric on animals - his sources and their application	p. 65
Giraldus as natural historian : transformations and reception	p. 77
Reading God : visions and revisions in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of divine love	p. 98
'The venym of Symony' : the debate on the eucharist in the late fourteenth century and The pardoner's prologue and tale	p. 115
'Ignotum per ignocius' : alchemy, analogy and poetics in Fragment VIII of The Canterbury tales	p. 131
Tradition and innovation in the Middle English debates of mortality	p. 157
The 'Wagstaff miscellany' : compilation, organization and identity in the book of John Whittocksmead	p. 175
'I Playne Piers' and the Protestant plowman prints : the transformation of a medieval figure	p. 189
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