Introduction: Critical Theory and the Study of the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Finke, Laurie A.,and Martin B. Shichtman.
Introduction: Critical Theory and the Study of the Middle Ages
- Published
- Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, eds. Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 1-11.
- Description
- Summarizes through Kaske (defender of patristic exegesis) and Donaldson (opposer) the debate in the 1950's and 1960s over textual meaning. In the 1970s, medievalists underplayed historical differences between their work and medieval texts. In the 1980s, "We have begun to examine how medieval studies...mediate between what has survived of medieval culture and its reception in the twentieth century."
- Contributor
- Shichtman, Martin B.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.