Includes bibliographical references (paged 259-282) and index.
Contents:
Found bodies: the living, the dead, and the undead in the broad medieval present / Sarah Salih -- The beaker in the barrow, the flagon with the dragon: accessorizing Beowulf / Roberta Frank -- Evidence of the past in the legend of the Seven Sleepers / Neil Cartlidge -- The return of the king: exhuming King Arthur and Richard III / Philip Schwyzer -- Global Beowulf and the poetics of entanglement / Andrew James Johnston -- Weapons of healing: materiality and oral poetics in Old English remedies and medicinal charms / Lori Ann Garner -- Saracens at St. Albans: the heart-case of Roger de Norton / Naomi Howell -- The Ruthwell Cross and the Riddle of Time / Jan-Peer Hartmann -- Archaeo-theatrics / Jonathan Gil Harris -- 11 ways of looking at renaissance ruins / Andrew Hui -- But men seyn, "What may ever laste?": Chaucer's House of fame as a medieval museum / John Hines.
Summary:
"Examines the understanding and experience of temporality as registered through the representation of found objects in medieval and early modern accounts, such as Beowulf, King Arthur, and Richard III. These essays re-evaluate how the Middle Ages is periodized"-- Provided by publisher.
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