Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature

Author
Kathleen E. Kennedy (auth.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Edition
1
Year
2009
Page
XIII, 185
ISBN
978-1-349-37401-4, 978-0-230-62162-6
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.6 MiB

Product Description Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship between lords and retainers was depicted in literature by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Lydgate. Kennedy uses close readings and medieval letter collections to provide a documentary look at how lords and men communicated information about their relationships and reveals surprising information about both medieval law and society. Review "Kennedy's original study of maintenance is a welcome addition to our understanding of the literature as well as social relations in later medieval England. Drawing on an impressive body of literary and historical sources, Kennedy casts old sources into a new light and gives some lesser known literary works a new importance. What is particularly admirable is her searching and subtle consideration of the myriad forms of dependence and social doubt that underlay the notions and practices of maintenance by law and service. She helps us to see the durability of social dependence as well as its historically specific weight as it bore down on women and men, the law as well as literature. Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature will engage both students of literature and historians and should stimulate new lines of debate on the nature of medieval social practices and their associated legal frameworks." - David Gary Shaw, Professor of History, Wesleyan University About the Author KATHLEEN E. KENNEDY is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State-Brandywine, USA.

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