Prophet Margins
Subtitle: The Medieval Vatic Impulse And Social Stability (Studies in the Humanities / Liturature--Politics--Society)
Contributors: Edward L. Risden (Editor); Karen Moranski (Editor); Stephen Yandell (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780820471075
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry; Literary Criticism; European literature; History and criticism; Literature, Medieval; Prophecy in literature; Renaissance, 1450-1600
Description: "This collection of nine essays examines the range of social and political implications that inflects poetic discourse, from the Old English and Latin texts of the Anglo-Saxon world to the Scotland and England of the Renaissance. Whether saints' lives, Germanic heroic epics, chronicles, or satiric poems, the works discussed in this book retain their verbal power, if not their political influence, into our own time."--Jacket.