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Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature VII: The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem [Hardback]
Rosemary Greentree (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859916219
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Series: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
Volume: VII
The aim of this bibliography is to provide a chronological survey of 19th- and 20th-century (with a cut-off point of 1995) editions and criticism of Middle English lyrics and short poems. The poems, which include some Middle Scots works, predom... .... Learn More -
The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation [Paperback]
Neil Cartlidge (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859896900
Published by : The Exeter Press
The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it ha... .... Learn More -
Medieval English Wardship in Romance and Law [Hardback]
Noel James Menuge (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859916325
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The issue of wardship, where a guardian takes care of an heir, his land and property until he or she comes of age, has been widely explored in a legal sense but not in terms of what the literary evidence tells us. Here, Menuge brings together e... .... Learn More -
Clerks and Courtiers [Paperback]
Andrew James Johnston (Author)
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ISBN: 9783825312343
Published by : Universitatsverlag Winter
Johnston's dissertation forms a specialised and detailed study of Chaucer's vision of aristocrats, the clergy and the structure of the state in the Canterbury Tales . Johnston assesses Chaucer's place in the highly complex social organisation of ... .... Learn More -
Inward Purity and Outward Splendour [Hardback]
Judith Middleton-Stewart (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851158204
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Reads like a medieval detective story. A splendid book... should be treated as a companion volume to The Stripping of the Altars. JULIAN LITTEN, CHURCH TIMES In the late medieval churches of the former deanery of Dunwich there are many features... .... Learn More -
Chaucer at Large: The Poet in the Modern Imagination [Hardback]
Steven G Ellis (Author)
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ISBN: 9780816633760
Published by : Univ of Minnesota Press
Offered as part of the sexcentenary commemoration of Chaucer's death, this very readable study examines Chaucer's impact on the academic and non-academic worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronological chapters assess Chaucer's impact on t... .... Learn More -
Chaucer 1340-1400. The Life and Times of the First English Poet [Hardback]
Richard West (Author)
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ISBN: 9780786707799
Published by : Constable & Co. Ltd.
This new biography appears six hundred years after the death of Chaucer. In it Richard West vividly portrays the character of the poet, the major stages of his life and the impact of national and international events such as the Hundred Years W... .... Learn More -
Medieval Arts Doctrines on Ambiguity and their Places in Langland's Poetics [Hardback]
John Chamberlin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780773520738
Published by : McGill-Queen's UP
This book helps readers of Piers Plowman understand some of the most characteristic and inventive elements of Langland's work. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Chamberlin brings together an examination of Langland's poetic practices, a dis... .... Learn More -
Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall [Hardback]
David Aers (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859915557
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A collection of nine essays celebrating the 70th birthday of David Pearsall whose numerous writings promoted the view that literature is the `product of particular times and places and always comes from real people'. The thought-provoking and ... .... Learn More -
Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation [Hardback]
Judith Weiss (Author); Jennifer Fellows (Author); Morgan Dickson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859915977
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The two main themes of this collection of eleven essays are to show how varied and suprising medieval romances can be and how stories were constantly reworked for different tastes. Beginning with Anglo-Norman romances and concluding with late 1... .... Learn More