Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Roman Bleier, who holds a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities from the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Information Modelling–Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz. His research interests include digital scholarly editing and digital history. Brian Coleman is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and a former Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar. His doctoral thesis focused on office and society in late medieval Ireland. Clare Fletcher holds a PhD in Medieval Literature from the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where she is currently teaching. A former Trinity College Postgraduate Scholar, her research interests lie mainly in late fourteenth-century English poetry and she has published on both Chaucer and Gower.

Contents: The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity – John Scattergood: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Story- Telling, Memory and «Trouthe» – Natalie Hanna: Chaucer’s Worthiest Knight: Heroic Identity in Troilus and Criseyde – Cultural Memory and National Identities – Marta Miller: Negotiating the Memory of Kings and Icelandic Identity: The Ideological Complexity of Morkinskinna and Heimskringla – Aleksandar Z. Savić: «A Most Splendent Path to Jerusalem»: Remembering the Holy Land in Medieval Serbian Hagiography (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century) – Michael Knudson: Where Fact Meets Fiction: The Scandinavian Historical Roots of the Middle English Romance Havelok the Dane – Emotional Identities – Lucie Kaempfer: The Memory of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde: Identity and Emotional Temporality – Gerald Morgan: An Aristotelian Ideal: The Beauty and Virtue of Blanche of Lancaster in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess (c. 1368) – Scott Eaton: Confessions of a Witch- Finder: Fear and Desire in John Stearne’s A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft – Nota Bene: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction – Sumner Braund: Meditations for a King? King Alfred, His Memory and the Old English Soliloquies – Seamus Dwyer: Scraping, Scribing and Shriving: The Language of Writing, Judgement and Penitence in Chaucer’s «Adam Scriveyn» – Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England – Rosemary Keep: Ribbons and Righteousness: Memory and Multiple Identity in the Portrait of a Preston Haberdasher and His Family – Catherine R. Evans: Metanoia and Miserere Mei Deus: Penitential Memory in Anne Lock and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Translations of Psalm 51.