Andrew James Johnston

This text traces the dialogic nature of the relationship between the Middle Ages and modernity. Arguing that modern beliefs in the alterity of the Middle Ages stem from the Middle Ages' own processes of self-representation, the author explores varieties of nostalgia through a wide selection of texts.

Performing the Middle Ages from 'Beowulf' to 'Othello'

Russell West-Pavlov

Elisabeth Kempf

Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida

Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Johnston's dissertation forms a specialised and detailed study of Chaucer's vision of aristocrats, the clergy and the structure of the state in the Canterbury Tales . Johnston assesses Chaucer's place in the highly complex social organisation of 14th-century England and considers how Chaucer and his works were perceived by his close contemporaries, such as Hoccleve and Gower, and by subsequent writers.

Chaucer, Late Middle English Literature and the State Formation Process

Clerks and Courtiers

Thomas Honegger

Winfried Rudolf

This volume comprises selected papers of SEM VI to VIII (Studientage Englisches Mittelalter), held at Jena, Bochum, and Zurich between 2004 and 2007. It presents a representative cross-section of topics in the field of English medieval studies in Germany and Switzerland. The spectrum ranges from philological textual criticism, cultural studies centring around the history of ideas, questions of historical writing, alliteration, and the depiction of the monstrous in early modern literature, to philological and linguistic approaches focussing on morphology and grammar.

Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature

Clerks, Wives and Historians

Seit dem Mittelalter kursieren Erzählungen über Robin Hood und sie haben sich bis in die heutige Populärkultur fortgesetzt. Zahlreiche Kinofilme zeigen seine Taten immer wieder in neuem Licht. Doch gab es ihn, den «wahren», den «historischen» Robin Hood? Andrew James Johnston begibt sich auf die Spuren dieses Helden, dessen Bild die Zeiten überdauerte. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass die Figur des Robin Hood, des Rächers der Armen und Entrechteten, eher einer Sehnsucht entsprang als tatsächlichen historischen Ereignissen. Seine Popularität speiste sich nicht zuletzt aus dem Wunsch, einer ungerechten, mit Zwängen behafteten Gesellschaft zu entfliehen. Daran hat sich bis heute nichts geändert.

Geschichte einer Legende

Robin Hood

Ferdinand von Mengden

Stefan Thim

Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology

Language and Text

Andrew James Johnston

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