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The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
R. F. Yeager (Ed.)
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Description for The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
Hardback. A collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Editor(s): Yeager, R. F.; Takamiya, Toshiyuki. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBAH; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Weight
574g
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230112674
SKU
V9780230112674
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About R. F. Yeager (Ed.)
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.
Reviews for The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
'Only a gallimaufrey of this kind could pay proper tribute to the abundance of Terry Jones's medieval interests. Here are serious engagements with areas of history he opened up to dispute: studies of sex and satire and pacifism, a pilgrim biography that Chaucer overlooked, advice on Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a teaching aid, and a piece on ... Read more