Emily Steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Communities in Crisis
This essay considers how the experience of being a Jewish heritage traveler inflects the author’s approach to reading and teaching medieval literature. For the author, Jewish heritage travel, whether medieval or modern, tells alternative histories which rely upon alternative ways of seeing and interpreting in the face of ongoing, chronic crisis. Just as the medieval travel narrative of Benjamin of Tudela lists Jewish monuments in Rome alongside C…
Neck Verse
Mitigations in medieval criminal law, designed to prevent or defer execution, have been regarded in a variety of ways: as acts of mercy, as discretionary measures, and as travesties of justice. For post-medieval English and American writers they also represent the past of the law; since at least the eighteenth century they have formed the backbone of legal histories describing the passage from premodern to modern law and from a less to a more equ…
John Trevisa's Information Age
Encyclopedic Style
This chapter turns to Trevisa’s accomplished translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s natural encyclopedia, De proprietatibus rerum . Medieval encyclopedias like Trevisa’s subvert modern expectations of natural history by showing first, that the history of information culture includes both literature and the literary, and second, that the history of English literature includes the translation of big Latin encyclopedias into the vernacular. Trevisa…
Encyclopedic Verse and Vernacular Science
Le Livre de Sydrac , originally composed in French for the French court in the last decades of the thirteenth century, was translated into English before 1400 and survives in eight medieval copies. The most complete versions of the English translation, a versified redaction of the French prose, add up to approximately 11,000 lines of verse. This chapter argues that the English Sydrac , which addresses topics ranging from the best body parts to th…
Medieval Historical Writing
History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, th…
Medieval Historical Writing
Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity
Compendious Genres
Medieval compendia, the Wikipedia of the Middle Ages, are a rich and productive source for medieval thinking about genre. For some medieval writers, writing in Latin or in the vernacular, compendiousness was not only an indicator of genre but also a pretext for genre thinking. It is at once a characteristic of a medieval genre and the means through which medieval writers experimented with genre. In this essay I focus on two compendious writers, t…
The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England
Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in t…
Piers Plowman, Diversity, and the Medieval Political Aesthetic
This essay argues that later medieval English poetry, and William Langland's Piers Plowman in particular, developed strains of political thought that originated with Continental legal scholars. More specifically, Langland, in concert with other fourteenth-century alliterative poets, helped shape political thought about diversity, an "unfinished" project of earlier Continental philosophers and jurists, through radical experiments in poetic form
Interpretation in "Piers Plowman" . William Elford Rogers
Compendious Genres
Medieval compendia, the Wikipedia of the Middle Ages, are a rich and productive source for medieval thinking about genre. For some medieval writers, writing in Latin or in the vernacular, compendiousness was not only an indicator of genre but also a pretext for genre thinking. It is at once a characteristic of a medieval genre and the means through which medieval writers experimented with genre. In this essay I focus on two compendious writers, t…
Interpretation in "Piers Plowman" . William Elford Rogers
Piers Plowman, Diversity, and the Medieval Political Aesthetic
This essay argues that later medieval English poetry, and William Langland's Piers Plowman in particular, developed strains of political thought that originated with Continental legal scholars. More specifically, Langland, in concert with other fourteenth-century alliterative poets, helped shape political thought about diversity, an "unfinished" project of earlier Continental philosophers and jurists, through radical experiments in poetic form
The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England
Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in t…
Compendious Genres
Medieval compendia, the Wikipedia of the Middle Ages, are a rich and productive source for medieval thinking about genre. For some medieval writers, writing in Latin or in the vernacular, compendiousness was not only an indicator of genre but also a pretext for genre thinking. It is at once a characteristic of a medieval genre and the means through which medieval writers experimented with genre. In this essay I focus on two compendious writers, t…
Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity
Medieval Historical Writing
History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, th…
Medieval Historical Writing
John Trevisa's Information Age
Encyclopedic Style
This chapter turns to Trevisa’s accomplished translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s natural encyclopedia, De proprietatibus rerum . Medieval encyclopedias like Trevisa’s subvert modern expectations of natural history by showing first, that the history of information culture includes both literature and the literary, and second, that the history of English literature includes the translation of big Latin encyclopedias into the vernacular. Trevisa…
Encyclopedic Verse and Vernacular Science
Le Livre de Sydrac , originally composed in French for the French court in the last decades of the thirteenth century, was translated into English before 1400 and survives in eight medieval copies. The most complete versions of the English translation, a versified redaction of the French prose, add up to approximately 11,000 lines of verse. This chapter argues that the English Sydrac , which addresses topics ranging from the best body parts to th…
Communities in Crisis
This essay considers how the experience of being a Jewish heritage traveler inflects the author’s approach to reading and teaching medieval literature. For the author, Jewish heritage travel, whether medieval or modern, tells alternative histories which rely upon alternative ways of seeing and interpreting in the face of ongoing, chronic crisis. Just as the medieval travel narrative of Benjamin of Tudela lists Jewish monuments in Rome alongside C…
Neck Verse
Mitigations in medieval criminal law, designed to prevent or defer execution, have been regarded in a variety of ways: as acts of mercy, as discretionary measures, and as travesties of justice. For post-medieval English and American writers they also represent the past of the law; since at least the eighteenth century they have formed the backbone of legal histories describing the passage from premodern to modern law and from a less to a more equ…
History (9 works) · Medieval Literature and History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · Encyclopedia (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works)