A companion to medieval English literature and culture, c.1350-c.1500 /
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Reflects the erosion of the tradit...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Overviews. Critical approaches / David Raybin ; English society in the later Middle Ages : deference, ambition and conflict / S.H. Rigby ; Religious authority and dissent / Mishtooni Bose ; City and country, wealth and labour / Sarah Rees Jones ; Women's voices and roles / Carol M. Meale
- The production and reception of texts. Manuscripts and readers / A.S.G. Edwards ; From manuscript to modern text / Julia Boffey ; Translation and society / Catherine Batt
- Language and literature. The languages of medieval Britain / Laura Wright ; The forms of speech / Donka Minkova ; The forms of verse / Donka Minkova
- Encounters with other cultures. England and France / Ardis Butterfield ; Britain and Italy : trade, travel, translation / Nick Havely ; England's antiquities : Middle English literature and the classical past / Christopher Baswell ; Jews, Saracens, 'black men, ' Tartars : England in a world of racial difference / Geraldine Heng
- Special themes. War and chivalry / Richard W. Kaeuper and Montgomery Bohna ; Literature and law / Richard Firth Green ; Images / Peter Brown ; Love / Barry Windeatt
- Genres. Middle English romance / Thomas Hahn and Dana M. Symons ; Writing nation : shaping identity in medieval historical narratives / Raluca L. Radulescu ; Dream poems / Helen Phillips ; Lyric / Rosemary Greentree ; Literature of religious instruction / E.A. Jones ; Mystical and devotional literature / Denise N. Baker ; Accounts of lives / Kathleen Ashley ; Medieval English theatre : codes and genres / Meg Twycross ; Morality and interlude drama / Darryll Grantley
- Readings. York mystery plays / Pamela King ; The Book of Margery Kempe / Ruth Evans ; Julian of Norwich / Santha Bhattacharji ; Piers Plowman / Stephen Kelly ; Subjectivity and ideology in the Canterbury tales / Mark Miller ; John Gower and John Lydgate : forms and norms of rhetorical culture / J. Allan Mitchell ; Thomas Hoccleve, La male regle / Nicholas Perkins ; Discipline and relaxation in the poetry of Robert Henryson / R. James Goldstein ; Sir Gawain and the green knight / Kevin Gustafson ; Blood and love in Malory's Morte Darthur / Catherine La Farge.
