Acts of Recognition by Lee Patterson - 9780268038373

Acts of RecognitionEssays on Medieval Culture\nAuthor(s): Lee Patterson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268038373, 978-0268038373\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\""\n\n 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 of medieval literature and the second on how to manage the inseparability of fact and value in the classroom. The next three chapters take up.