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Medieval Literature - English

Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350
by David Matthews
In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals to the sovereign increase with the development of parliament in the late thirteenth century and the emergence of the common petition, and become ...
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Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature, 1100-1500
edited by Larry Scanlon
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nations leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English. Exploring the periods ...
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Digby Poems: A New Edition of the Lyrics
edited by Helen Barr
The 24 short lyrics known as the Digby Poems are part of a manuscript dating from the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The represent a challenge to the theory that vernacular religious writing was successfully stifled by the Church in this period. There have been no studies of the Digby lyrics in their entirety, and little has been written on the individual poems. In Helen Barr's new edition, the poems have been freshly transcribed and ...
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The Medieval British Literature Handbook
edited by Daniel T. Kline
Designed as an undergraduate textbook, and focusing on Middle English literature from 1300-1500 this book includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research; and case studies in reading primary and secondary texts. 300p (Continuum 2009)
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Later Medieval English Literature
by Douglas Gray
This huge volume is very clearly a labour of love in which Douglas Gray is determined to overturn preconceived notions of the post-Chaucer literature of medieval Britain as second rate, derivative or dull. It is largely descriptive in tone, and organised simply, by genre, with the major prose writers and poets of the age given their own chapters, with Scottish writing treated as a genre in its own right. Enormously detailed in its comprehensive ...
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Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer
by Andrew Cole
The teaching and very public condemnation of John Wyclif emerged at almost exactly the same time as the English literary tradition of Langland and Chaucer, continued by Lydgate, Hoccleve and others. Andrew Cole argues that this is no coincidence - the emphasis on interpreting the past in a new light is common to both. Re-examining these authors he also shows that whilst none could be in any way described as a Lollard, diverse Wycliffite ideas of ...
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Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household
by Elliot Kendall
The great households of the nobility remained basic units of economic and political power in the late fourteenth century; the Royal household was also still to a large extent synonymous with the state. Social status was grounded firmly in the ideology of the household, and as this study sets out to prove this political economy and its ideology is reflected absolutely in the literary culture of the period. Using Gower's Confessio Amantis as ...
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Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition
by John M. Bowers
It now seems almost established fact that Chaucer was the father of English literature, and this view was, in fact current as early as the 15th century, with Hoccleve and Lydgate claiming this role for him. In Chaucer's own time, however Langland was the more popular poet, with far more 14th century manuscripts surviving, and, Bowers argues with Langland influencing Chaucer himself. This study examines the turnaround in their fortunes, asking how ...
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Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England
by Jenni Nuttall
The deposition of Richard II and its justification by Henry IV; namely that he was unfit to rule and had 'voluntarily' abdicated, sparked considerable political debate as to the nature of kingship. Political language was thus placed far more into the sphere of non-royal citizens and starts to permeate both political works and literature more generally. This study looks at the literature of early Lancastrian England, including such poets as ...
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Grounds of English Literature
by Christopher Cannon
The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of the existence of other English writing. In a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the ...
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