Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, C. 1350 - C. 1500

Name: Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, C. 1350 - C. 1500
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ISBN: 9781405195522

ISBN-10: 1405195525

ISBN-13: 9781405195522

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter Brown

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Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 10/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.74" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



Overviews



Critical Approaches




English Society in the Later Middle Ages: Deference, Ambition and Conflict




Religious Authority and Dissent




City and Country, Wealth and Labour




Women's Voices and Roles




The Production and Reception of Texts



Manuscripts and Readers




From Manuscript to Modern Text




Translation and Society




Language and Literature



The Languages of Medieval Britain




The Forms of Speech




The Forms of Verse




Encounters with Other Cultures



England and France




Britain and Italy: Trade, Travel, Translation




England's Antiquities: Middle English Literature and the Classical Past




Jews, Saracens, 'Black Men', Tartars: England in a World of Racial Difference




Special Themes



War and Chivalry




Literature and Law




Images




Love




Genres



Middle English Romance




Writing Nation: Shaping Identity in Medieval Historical Narratives




Dream Poems




Lyric




Literature of Religious Instruction




Mystical and Devotional Literature




Accounts of Lives




Medieval English Theatre: Codes and Genres




Morality and Interlude Drama




Readings



York Mystery Plays




The Book of Margery Kempe




Julian of Norwich




Piers Plowman




Subjectivity and Ideology in the Canterbury Tales




John Gower and John Lydgate: Forms and Norms of Rhetorical Culture




Thomas Hoccleve, La Male Regle




Discipline and Relaxation in the Poetry of Robert Henryson




Sir Gawain and the Green Knight




Blood and Love in Malory's Morte Darthur



Index