This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.

Autorentext

LISA H. COOPER is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
ANDREA DENNY BROWN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, USA.

Inhalt
Lydgate Matters; L. H. Cooper and A. Denny-Brown Lydgate and London's Public Culture; C. Sponsler Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache; A. Denny-Brown Sovereignty and Sewage; P. Strohm Lydgate's Worse Poem; M. Nolan 'MarkysOff the Workman': Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man; L. H. Cooper Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters; M. R. Warren St. George and the 'Steyned Halle': Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers; J. Floyd Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption; J. M. Ganim Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When; D. Vance Smith