Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ARIZONA STUDIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE)

The essays collected here have in common the concept of boundaries, which is defined according to discipline, and movement through boundaries. The essays cover a range of topics and periods. The first section consists of literary approaches to boundaries, ranging widely in subject matter from Norman drama to sixteenth-century goodnight ballads. The second section includes mainly historical studies of such topics as social mobility in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain, post-1453 Byzantine identity, and Milanese Renaissance musical genres. Individually and as a group, the essays contribute fresh insights into well-known and some less familiar works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ARIZONA STUDIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE), with ISBN 9782503508184 and ISBN 2503508189.