The Medieval Python | The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones

R. Yeager (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1349294594 / ISBN 13: 9781349294596

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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The Medieval Python | The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones | R. Yeager (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xii | Englisch | 2012 | Palgrave Macmillan | EAN 9781349294596 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Medieval Python | The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349294594
• ISBN 13: 9781349294596
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 16D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 429 grams
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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.