Amis And Amiloun Robert Of Cisyle And Sir Amadace
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Author |
: Edward E Foster |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2008-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444408 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace by : Edward E Foster
In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace are classified by Lillian Herlands Hornstein as Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent. Amis, produced in the East Midlands in the late thirteenth century was well known throughout Europe, but according to Edward Foster, the Middle English version is especially lively, entertaining, and perplexing.Robert of Cisyle was also a common and popular story. Like the medieval tragedies recounted in Chaucer's The Monk's Tale, it recounts the story of the fall of a great man and his ultimate triumph once he has been thoroughly humiliated.The stress in Sir Amadace is on material things: Amadace's original plight is material, his succor of the unburied knight is material, the white knight's assistance to him is material, his redemption is material . . . , and his ultimate happiness is material. - from the Introduction
Author |
: Peter Brown |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 692 |
Release |
: 2009-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405195522 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405195525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 by : Peter Brown
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 |
: Graham Drake |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1999-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444180 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Romances of England by : Graham Drake
Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories, dragons, and all sorts of marvels and adventures. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, these works provide an excellent cross section of the wonderful world of Middle English romances featuring the escapades of their fantastical countrymen.
Author |
: Alison Wiggins |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444296 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stanzaic Guy of Warwick by : Alison Wiggins
The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood. After his marriage, however, he is stricken by remorse for the very actions that have brought him fame, and he sets out anonymously on a series of pilgrimages of atonement.
Author |
: Sarah Stanbury |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2001-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444200 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pearl by : Sarah Stanbury
Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's haunting novel, Mama Day, where the crossing-over moves into a place of memory and hope, the nostalgic space of home as well as Beulah or Eden, the earthly paradise."
Author |
: Dana M Symons |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2004-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints by : Dana M Symons
On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes (balade, rondeaux, virelay, lay, and five-stanza chanson) with by far the largest number of works of unknown authorship. The known authors represented in the manuscript and the texts themselves have notable associations with England and with Chaucer. And intriguingly there are fifteen lyrics each headed by the initials Ch, very likely indications of authorship, neatly inserted between rubric and text. . . . [The] rubrics, together with other substantial manuscript evidence and the intrinsic worth of the poems, make them easily the best candidates among extant French lyrics for Chaucer's authorship, appropriate representatives of his French work. - from the Introduction
Author |
: Stephen Knight |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 744 |
Release |
: 2000-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444245 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales by : Stephen Knight
Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all pre-seventeenth-century Robin Hood tales. The editors include such other "outlaw" figures as Hereward the Wake, Eustache the Monk, and Fouke le Fitz Waryn to further contextualize the tradition of English outlaw tales. In this text the figure of Robin Hood can be viewed in historical perspective, from the early accounts in the chronicles through the ballads, plays, and romances that grew around his fame and impressed him on our fictional and historical imaginations. This edition is particularly useful for classrooms, with its extensive introductions, notes, and glosses, enabling students of any level to approach the texts in their original Middle English.
Author |
: Anne McKim |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2003-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wallace by : Anne McKim
The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights, of war are graphically conveyed in language which seems designed not only to express Wallace's rage and Hary's antipathy but also to incite hatred of the English in his readers.
Author |
: Mary-Jo Arn |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2005-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580444033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580444032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems by : Mary-Jo Arn
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 Orleans, who was captured by the English at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and not released until 1440. The longest single poem on the subject is James I of Scotland's The Kingis Quair, purportedly written at the time of his release from an eighteen-year imprisonment in England .This volume reflects the wide scope of these prison poems by bringing together a new edition of The Kingis Quair, a selection from Charles d'Orleans' Fortunes Stabilnes, a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about physical and/or emotional imprisonment.
Author |
: Walter Hilton |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2001-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580443937 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580443931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Scale of Perfection by : Walter Hilton
Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose. Its popularity is attested by the fact that some forty-two manuscripts containing one or both of the books survive, with a relatively large number of manuscipts with Book I alone, which suggests it may have been the more popular of the two. Hilton (born c. 1343) was a member of the religious order known as the Augustinian Canons. There is reason to believe that be was trained in canon law and studied at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of a number of works in English and Latin, all much shorter than The Scale. He died at the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire in 1396. On the basis of the content of certain of his works it can be safely inferred that he was actively involved in some of the religious controversies current in England in the 1380s and 1390s, and his principal concern, evident in The Scale , is to defend orthodox belief, especially in the conduct of the contemplative life.