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Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. The book interrogates critical, poetic, artistic and political archives to reveal exchanges of cultural energy and influence between past and present, offering new ways of knowing the medieval past and the contemporary moment. ** About the Author Joshua Davies is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London

Author

Joshua Davies

Publisher

Manchester University Press Oxford University Press, Incorporated [Distributor

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526125941

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Poetry