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Title:

Laments for the lost in medieval literature / edited by Jane Tolmie, M.J. Toswell.

Publisher:

Brepols ;

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bereavement in literature.
Laments--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Tolmie, Jane.
Toswell, M. J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Postscript/postlude/afterword / Derek Pearsall. Structures of sorrow : the lament psalms in medieval England / M.J. Toswell -- Dustsceawung : texting the dead in the Old English elegies / Mary K. Ramsey -- The grave, the sword, and the lament : mourning for the future in Beowulf / Anne Savage -- Laments for lost children : Latin traditions / Jan M. Ziolkowski -- The language of Philomena's lament / Susan Small -- Mary, motherhood, and theatricality in the old Polish Listen, dear brothers and Chaucer's Man of law's tale / Anna Czarnowus -- Myth to live by in Sonatorrek / Joseph Harris -- Non enim possum plorare nec lamenta fundere : Sonatorrek in a tenth-century context til minningar um Stefán Karlsson / Russell Poole -- Lullaby as lament : learning to mourn in Middle English nativity lyrics / Amy N. Vines -- Natural feeling and unnatural mothers : Herod the Great, the life of Saint Bridgit, and Chaucer's Clerk's tale / Rebecca Krug -- Son, dey þou nat without þy modyre : the landscape of suffering in The lamentacioun of Oure Lady / Elizabeth Towl -- Christine de Pizan's life in lament : love, death, and politics / Nadia Margolis -- Spinning women and manly soldiers : grief and game in the English massacre plays / Jane Tolmie -- Postscript/postlude/afterword / Derek Pearsall.

Series:

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; v. 19

ISBN:

2503528589 (hbk.)
9782503528588 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)645678587

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)