Brepols - The Playful Middle Ages

Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles thesometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane.   Paul Hardwick has a D.Phil in English medieval vernacular anticlericalism from the University of York, and has published widely on medieval literature and art.

Encomia. 2010 – 2011, n° 34-35. Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale de littérature courtoise

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The traffic in people in: The gift of narrative in medieval England

PDF) The arts of fighting and of scholastic dispute: two types of duels at the end of the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance

This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly drawn from the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are

Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts

PDF) Playful Reading as Pastime at the French Court: The Performance of Literary Games and Poetic Competitions in the Late Middle Ages (Kalamazoo)

Medieval manuscripts blog: Illuminated manuscripts

Paul Sturtevant - Audience Research Specialist - Smithsonian Institution

Paul Hardwick — Leeds Trinity University