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

Yeager, R. [Editor]; Takamiya, T. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0230112676 / ISBN 13: 9780230112674

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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First Printing with full number line; x, [2], 265pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of pictorial boards; text very good. No dust jacket, as issued. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (The New Middle Ages)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230112676
• ISBN 13: 9780230112674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 19 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • History Medieval/Renaissance

About this title

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."

About the Author

R.F YEAGER Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at the University of West Florida, USA.

TOSHIYUKI TAKAMIYAIS Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Keio University, Japan.