Medieval Literature and Civilization
Subtitle: Studies in Memory of G. N. Garmonsway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781472513991
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500; Scandinavian literature, history and criticism
Description: "These original contributions to the study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia are published as a memorial to Norman Garmonsway, Chair of English at King's College, University of London, who died in 1967. The aim has been to offer to the public a book of essays which have a direct bearing upon his central academic interests and which is thus structured, in some measure, after his mind. He saw the study of the language and literature (together with the history and archaeology) of early Britain and Scandinavia as forming a single coherent discipline and this conception of unity in diversity can be glimpsed both in the range of matters which he chose to write upon and in many of his individual pieces. These essays will also appeal to the interested non-specialist, reflecting the fact that Norman Garmonsway was, despite his erudition, the very antithesis of the remote and secluded scholar."--Bloomsbury Publishing.