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Author: Larry Scanlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-18
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0521841674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author: Candace Barrington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1107180783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-10-26
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1405195525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 1405171960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture,c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowlydefined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays onmedieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canonand conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary betweenmedieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for readingliterature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialoguewith other cultural products, including the literature of othercountries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, includingtexts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students ofmedieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory,love, and chivalry and war.
Author: Andrew Galloway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-24
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0521856892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
Author: Richard Beadle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-07-10
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1139827928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
Author: Simon Gaunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781139827874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.
Author: Samuel Fanous
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1139827669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
Author: Orietta Da Rold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1107102464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.
Author: Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-05-22
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521796385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
