Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages

Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages
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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781580444019
ISBN-13 : 1580444016
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Synopsis Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages by : Warren Ginsberg

This edition contains two poems valuable to the study of satire of social abuses in the fourteenth century: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Both combine two genres of medieval poetry: dream visions and poetic debates. As the editor observes, the poem's perspectives are truly dizzying: on the one hand, economics, politics, ethics and social relations are seen as an interrelated set of universal, timeless principles; on the other, they appear as actual, contingent conditions that have resulted from specific acts in history. The editions include notes, glosses, an introduction, and a glossary, making them accessible to beginning and advanced students in Middle English alike.

Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages

Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780429575433
ISBN-13 : 0429575432
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Synopsis Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages by : Thorlac Turville-Petre

Originally published in 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of alliterative poetry in medieval English literature. The book presents lesser known alliterative Middle English poems, which are unmodernised and include explanatory footnotes designed to give clarity to the text and enable critical response to the texts. The book illustrates the great range and variety of alliterative verse, both rhymed and unrhymed. The poems range from descriptions of armies, bloody battles, dramatic storms and dreams of goddesses. Whatever the subject, social and political satire, theological controversy and moral admonition is always given a lively and interesting setting. The book contains a succinct and incisive introductory material and a carefully selected bibliography which will encourage further reading.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 1322
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ISBN-10 : 0521200040
ISBN-13 : 9780521200042
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Synopsis The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 by : George Watson

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Robert Thornton and His Books

Robert Thornton and His Books
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781903153512
ISBN-13 : 1903153514
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Synopsis Robert Thornton and His Books by : Susanna Fein

Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

Old and Middle English Language Studies

Old and Middle English Language Studies
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9789027237323
ISBN-13 : 9027237328
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Synopsis Old and Middle English Language Studies by : Matsuji Tajima

Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.

Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 576
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ISBN-10 : UCD:31175024107040
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English

The Oxford History of Poetry in English
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 668
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ISBN-10 : 9780192886736
ISBN-13 : 0192886738
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford History of Poetry in English by : Helen Cooper

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date--1400--English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts--history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.

Modern Philology

Modern Philology
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Total Pages : 928
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ISBN-10 : UGA:32108059211949
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Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of: Victorian bibliography, prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998)

Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 2402
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ISBN-10 : 9781351666367
ISBN-13 : 1351666363
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998) by : Paul E. Szarmach

First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.