Lee Patterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1050367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Patterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Patterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATTERSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530
Mythography and Politics
This chapter considers the role mythography played in the process of political mythopoesis (mythmaking)—that is, the use of myth to further such political goals as asserting hegemonic status, ennobling a community’s origins, and establishing kinship ties through heroic ancestors. Historians, geographers, and other chroniclers of this mythopoesis took various stances in terms of credulity. Some were invested in the myth and its political applicati…
Heracles as Ancestor
As he is ubiquitous in myth, Heracles is also ubiquitous in political myth-making, especially in his role as ancestor of communities and dynasties in the archaic through Hellenistic periods. Whether invoking his heroic qualities to enhance their own virtues or linking themselves to a Heraclid tradition to promote their own historical significance, such communities found Heracles to be useful in the context of political legitimization, kinship dip…
Myth as evidence in Strabo
There is no way to overestimate the role myth plays in Strabo's learned geographical treatise. First, myth is pervasive across the opus. Second, it routinely proves to be a vital tool in the pursuit of Strabo's geographical goals. Strabo acknowledges the historicity of the Trojan War, the Return of the Heracleidae, the voyage of the Argonauts, and other events. Strabo will also note festivals, tombs and shrines, and other indigenous phenomena not…
Antony and Armenia
Antony is commonly credited with incorporating Armenia as a Roman province. Those who make this claim, however, must face not only a lack of direct evidence for such an annexation but the absence of a plausible explanation when the historical context is fully revealed. Antony’s desire to return triumphantly one day to Rome explains his handling of Armenia, whose reduction he justified by removing its ostensibly treacherous king. The evidence coll…
Caracalla’s Armenia
We are hard pressed to understand the events of Caracalla’s Parthian war, including the role Armenia played in the conflict, because of gross inadequacies in our sources. A careful analysis suggests that Caracalla intended to annex Armenia but never saw the project through. His intentions can be gauged by his treatment of Edessa, for whose annexation the evidence is more solid. Caracalla was trying to secure his rear, from Osrhoene to Armenia, in…
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent. In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in th…
Myth as Evidence in Strabo
Strabo, Local Myth, and Kinship Diplomacy
An Aetolian Local Myth in Pausanias
Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch
The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”
Research Article| September 01 2001 “The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”: Martyrdom and Imitation in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale Lee Patterson Lee Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 507–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-31-3-507 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
The Disenchanted Classroom
If a life fulfilled its vocation directly, it would miss it.—Adorno
Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England
New Historical Literary Study
Social Chaucer. Paul Strohm
On the Margin
The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages
No man his reson herde
Research Article| October 01 1987 “No man his reson herde”: Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer’s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Lee Patterson Lee Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (4): 457–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-4-457 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lee Patterson; “No man his reso…
For the Wyves love of Bathe
Rapt With Pleasaunce
ions of doctrine. Milton is of course the great transitional figure in our literary history, and the versions of him that criticism gives us bespeak his liminality. An older tradition locates him as the last poet of the philosophical epic, writing a poem that is not merely historically true but, more profoundly, itself a form of knowledge.29 Virgil is full of wisdom, says Servius, an assumption that governed both Virgilian commentary and the writ…
Essays on Troilus and Criseyde . Mary Salu
Ambiguity and Interpretation
On the Margin
Rapt With Pleasaunce
ions of doctrine. Milton is of course the great transitional figure in our literary history, and the versions of him that criticism gives us bespeak his liminality. An older tradition locates him as the last poet of the philosophical epic, writing a poem that is not merely historically true but, more profoundly, itself a form of knowledge.29 Virgil is full of wisdom, says Servius, an assumption that governed both Virgilian commentary and the writ…
For the Wyves love of Bathe
Antony and Armenia
Antony is commonly credited with incorporating Armenia as a Roman province. Those who make this claim, however, must face not only a lack of direct evidence for such an annexation but the absence of a plausible explanation when the historical context is fully revealed. Antony’s desire to return triumphantly one day to Rome explains his handling of Armenia, whose reduction he justified by removing its ostensibly treacherous king. The evidence coll…
Myth as Evidence in Strabo
The Disenchanted Classroom
If a life fulfilled its vocation directly, it would miss it.—Adorno
No man his reson herde
Research Article| October 01 1987 “No man his reson herde”: Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer’s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Lee Patterson Lee Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (4): 457–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-4-457 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lee Patterson; “No man his reso…
Ambiguity and Interpretation
Rapt With Pleasaunce
ions of doctrine. Milton is of course the great transitional figure in our literary history, and the versions of him that criticism gives us bespeak his liminality. An older tradition locates him as the last poet of the philosophical epic, writing a poem that is not merely historically true but, more profoundly, itself a form of knowledge.29 Virgil is full of wisdom, says Servius, an assumption that governed both Virgilian commentary and the writ…
Essays on Troilus and Criseyde . Mary Salu
For the Wyves love of Bathe
No man his reson herde
Research Article| October 01 1987 “No man his reson herde”: Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer’s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Lee Patterson Lee Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (4): 457–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-4-457 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lee Patterson; “No man his reso…
The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages
On the Margin
Social Chaucer. Paul Strohm
Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England
New Historical Literary Study
The Disenchanted Classroom
If a life fulfilled its vocation directly, it would miss it.—Adorno
Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch
The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”
Research Article| September 01 2001 “The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”: Martyrdom and Imitation in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale Lee Patterson Lee Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 507–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-31-3-507 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
An Aetolian Local Myth in Pausanias
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent. In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in th…
Myth as Evidence in Strabo
Strabo, Local Myth, and Kinship Diplomacy
Caracalla’s Armenia
We are hard pressed to understand the events of Caracalla’s Parthian war, including the role Armenia played in the conflict, because of gross inadequacies in our sources. A careful analysis suggests that Caracalla intended to annex Armenia but never saw the project through. His intentions can be gauged by his treatment of Edessa, for whose annexation the evidence is more solid. Caracalla was trying to secure his rear, from Osrhoene to Armenia, in…
Antony and Armenia
Antony is commonly credited with incorporating Armenia as a Roman province. Those who make this claim, however, must face not only a lack of direct evidence for such an annexation but the absence of a plausible explanation when the historical context is fully revealed. Antony’s desire to return triumphantly one day to Rome explains his handling of Armenia, whose reduction he justified by removing its ostensibly treacherous king. The evidence coll…
Myth as evidence in Strabo
There is no way to overestimate the role myth plays in Strabo's learned geographical treatise. First, myth is pervasive across the opus. Second, it routinely proves to be a vital tool in the pursuit of Strabo's geographical goals. Strabo acknowledges the historicity of the Trojan War, the Return of the Heracleidae, the voyage of the Argonauts, and other events. Strabo will also note festivals, tombs and shrines, and other indigenous phenomena not…
Heracles as Ancestor
As he is ubiquitous in myth, Heracles is also ubiquitous in political myth-making, especially in his role as ancestor of communities and dynasties in the archaic through Hellenistic periods. Whether invoking his heroic qualities to enhance their own virtues or linking themselves to a Heraclid tradition to promote their own historical significance, such communities found Heracles to be useful in the context of political legitimization, kinship dip…
Mythography and Politics
This chapter considers the role mythography played in the process of political mythopoesis (mythmaking)—that is, the use of myth to further such political goals as asserting hegemonic status, ennobling a community’s origins, and establishing kinship ties through heroic ancestors. Historians, geographers, and other chroniclers of this mythopoesis took various stances in terms of credulity. Some were invested in the myth and its political applicati…
Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530
History (21 works) · Art (16 works) · Classics (13 works) · History (13 works) · Literature (13 works) · Medieval Literature and History (9 works) · Mythology (9 works) · Classics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works)