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The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature [Paperback]
Nicola Masciandaro (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268034986
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
A detailed study of the way work was conceptualised in late medieval England, grounded in a close analysis of the Middle English lexicon, accounts of the history of work and Fragment VII of the Canterbury tales. .... Learn More -
John Gower: The Minor Latin Works with in Praise of Peace [Paperback]
Michael Livingston (Editor); R.F. Yeager (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580440974
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Gower’s achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time—Anglo-French, English, and Latin—was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry ... .... Learn More -
The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems [Paperback]
Mary-Jo Arn (Editor); Linne R. Mooney (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580440936
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Readers have noticed that the fifteenth century saw a remarkable flourishing of poems written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment. The largest body of this poetry is from the pen of Charles of Valois, duke of Orlé... .... Learn More -
John Lydgate [Paperback]
Larry Scanlon (Editor); James Simpson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780268041168
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Contributors write about Lydgate from a variety of critical perspectives and emphasize the diversity of the poet’s writings beyond the city-state tragedies of Troy and Thebes. Genres discussed include beast fable, mumming, hagiography, devotional ... .... Learn More -
The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection [Paperback]
Kathleen Forni (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580440967
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
The poems in this volume were prized and preserved because of their association with Chaucer's name. The various genres represented in this sampler - the dream vision, good counsel, female panegyric, mass parody, proverbial wisdom, lovers' dialogu... .... Learn More -
Saints Lives in Middle English Collections [Paperback]
E. Gordon Whatley (Editor); Robert K. Upchurch (Editor); Anne B. Thompson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580440899
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Middle English texts with notes and introductory remarks of St Andrew, St George, St Jerome, St Thais, St Benedict and St Scholastica, St Austin, St Francis and St Julian, taken from the South English Lengendary and the Scottish Legendary among ot... .... Learn More -
Politique: Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare [Paperback]
Paul Strohm (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268041144
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In this book Paul Strohm shifts his recognized talent for textual and cultural analysis to the second half of the latter part of the fifteenth century, arguing that England experienced its own ""pre-Machiavellian"" moment between 1450 and 1485. Th... .... Learn More -
Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology [Hardback]
John Hines (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859918831
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Archaeology and literary criticism share a number of processes of interpretation, analysis and evaluation and have much to offer each other in interdisciplinary studies. John Hines argues that the two should be brought closer together to offer ... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Gower [Hardback]
Sian Echard (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843840008
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The 14th-century poet John Gower has been overshadowed by his contemporary Chaucer while the overt political and moral nature of his poetry has made him unpopular with recent critics. However, this collection of thirteen commissioned essays ref... .... Learn More -
Grounds of English Literature [Hardback]
Christopher Cannon (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199270828
Published by : Oxford University Press
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 w... .... Learn More
