The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (2012) (The New Middle Ages)

Synopsis

This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature comedy (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) as well as educational television series for BBC, the History Channel, etc. (e.g., Medieval Lives) - and in his published scholarship (e.g., Chaucer's Knight, in original and revised editions, Who Murdered Chaucer?), Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and his broad good humor to challenge, enlighten and reform. No one working today in either Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Jones' purposive, provocative views. Jones, perhaps more than any other medievalist, can be said to be an integral part of what Palgrave deems the "common dialogue."

Copyright:

2012

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ISBN-13:

9781137075055

Related ISBNs:

9780230112674

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

Date of Addition:

02/12/21

Copyrighted By:

R. F. Yeager, Toshiyuki Takamiya

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts

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Edited by:

R. Yeager

Edited by:

T. Takamiya