Enlistment: lists in medieval and early modern literature

Abstract

"Unearths the cultural significance of medieval and early modern lists from Chaucer's and Spenser's epic catalogues of trees, to household vocabulary, to genealogies and bestiaries."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: Enlistment as poetic stratagem / Eva von Contzen and James Simpson -- "He should not overlook anything that could ever be of significance": knowledge and vocabulary in Gerefa / Alexis Kellner Becker -- In the space of a list-Widsith's global modernism / Andrew James Johnston -- Listing divine names: a study in liturgical form / Kathryn Mogk Wagner -- Naming the children of Jacob: the shape of negative theology in the Benjamin Minor / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Out of Eden and back again: following the flow of concepts, categories, and lists in the four rivers of Paradise / Martha Rust -- Epic lists: the matter of Troy and the catalogue form in Middle English literature / Eva von Contzen -- Performing generic exhaustion: implosive households in Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour / Wolfram R. Keller -- The epic tree catalogue from Chaucer to Spenser / Ingo Berensmeyer -- What's in a list? Erasmus, Cromwell, Bale / Alex Davis -- Reformation lists: syntax, the sacred, and the production of junk / James Simpson.