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Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture

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Description for Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture Paperback. Brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in various venues over the years. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.

This volume brings together Lee Patterson’s essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, “The one persistent recognition that emerged from writing these otherwise quite disparate essays is that whatever the text . . . and whoever the people . . ., the values at issue remain central to contemporary life.”

Two dialectics are at work in this book: that between the past and the present and that between the individual and the social, and both have moral significance. The first two chapters are methodological; the first is on the historical understanding ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268038373
SKU
V9780268038373
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About Lee Patterson
Lee Patterson is Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Chaucer and the Subject of History.

Reviews for Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture
"This is a collection of essays published over the last twenty-seven years by an outstanding medievalist, one who has been exceptionally influential on medieval studies and whose work continues to be of the greatest importance. Patterson's collection is informed by a fascination with the ways in which the past inhabits the present. This collection of essays provide us with an ... Read more

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