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Medieval Media and Culture responds to a vibrant contemporary research field by foregrounding ways in which individuals interacted with written, visual, dramatic, and material media in medieval and early modern cultures. It seeks to illuminate and contextualize particular aspects of medieval culture through in-depth, insightful examination, and in so doing, to shed light on the ways in which the social may be revealed through the cultural. This new series puts medieval media in context, and considers its contemporary consumption and interpretation, and how we interact with and understand its remnants as modern audiences. In this way, the series looks back to medieval and early modern pasts and forward to our own societies and cultures.

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4 results in Medieval Media and Culture

The Nordic Beowulf
  • Bo Gräslund
  • Translated by Martin Naylor
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    20 November 2024
    Print publication:
    30 April 2022
  • In such a wide-ranging, long-standing, and international field of scholarship as Beowulf, one might imagine that everything would long since have been thoroughly investigated. And yet as far as the absolutely crucial question of the poem's origins is concerned, that is not the case. This cross-disciplinary study by Bo Gräslund argues that the material, geographical, historical, social, and ideological framework of Beowulf cannot be the independent literary product of an Old English Christian poet, but was in all essentials created orally in Scandinavia, which was a fertile seedbed for epic poetry.

Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse
  • Poetic and Spiritual Power in Early Medieval Society
  • Matthew D. Coker
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    20 February 2024
    Print publication:
    31 October 2023
  • The first extended study of supernatural discourse in Old English poetry, Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse fills a conspicuous gap in the scholarship of early medieval literature. Drawing insights from various disciplines, including critical discourse analysis, social psychology, and oral poetry studies, Supernatural Speakers demonstrates how and why three poets - the poets of Genesis A, Christ C, and Guthlac A - marshalled their distinction as experts of the Old English poetic medium to perform the power of supernatural speech by means of masterful poetics. By offering new analytical paths through these early medieval poems, Supernatural Speakers elucidates the importance of poetics as a critical window on the social and religious functions of verbal art in early medieval England.

Chaucer and Becket's Mother
  • The Man of Law's Tale, Conversion, and Race in the Middle Ages
  • Meriem Pagès
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    24 November 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023
  • Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket's martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II's knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket's father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the place and function of conversion and mission in 'The Man of Law's Tale', juxtaposing the tale with the legend about Becket's mother to assess the power (or lack thereof) of baptism in late medieval English works. This new comparative study thus provides productive insights into the complexity of the emergence of the concept of race in medieval English culture and literature.

The Bristol Merlin
  • Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment
  • Leah Tether, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Benjamin Pohl
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2023
    Print publication:
    31 July 2021
  • The discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.