Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England. History, Poetry, and Performance, Hardback/***

Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows how medieval writers and artists pondered ways of preserving and transmitting the past, and considered the pleasures and risks of creating an archive. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Sarah Elliott (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Novacich Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Halftones, black and white Number of pages: 230 Collection: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Publication date: 2017 Dimensions: 159 x 234 x 22 Cover type: Hardback