Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages Politics, Performativ
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays conside
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Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music Edited by Katharine W. Jager
The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English and Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14239
Katharine W. Jager Editor
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music
Editor Katharine W. Jager The University of Houston-Downtown Houston, TX, USA
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Contents
1 Introduction: Past Vernaculars: The Aesthetic and the Everyday 1 Katharine W. Jager Section I The Peasants’ Rebellion as Sensory Event 21 2 The Weight of Experience: John Gower and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 23 Joel D. Anderson 3 “Stonde Manlyche Togedyr in Trewthe”: Lyric and Rebellion Among Late Medieval Men 47 Katharine W. Jager 4 On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern 87 Adin E. Lears
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Section II Aesthetic
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