Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0199532044
A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature.
Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019153854X
In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.
Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 082030641X
This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in English. Others are little read today because their literary fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and literary patronage. Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these writers in historical context and explores the question of the female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of her works in translation, and a bibliography.
Author : Jennifer Jahner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316732207
History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, the history of the emotions, gender studies and critical race theory. Spanning one thousand years of historiography in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the essays map historical thinking across literary genres and expose the rich veins of national mythmaking tapped into by medieval writers. Additionally, they attend to the ways in which medieval histories crossed linguistic and geographical borders. Together, they trace multiple temporalities and productive anachronisms that fuelled some of the most innovative medieval writing.
Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Authors, Medieval
ISBN : 9780814213407
Robert R. Edward's Invention and Authorship in Medieval England examines the ways in which writers established themselves as authors in medieval England. It offers a critical appraisal of authorship in literary culture and shows how the conventions of authorship are used aesthetically by major writers of the period.
Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843843935
A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393334155
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Gives an overview of life in Northwestern Europe from 500 to 1500 and provides details for writers to portray the lives and times of the Middle Ages accurately.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107658926
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Author : Justin M. Byron-Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786835177
The book will equip the reader with a stronger understanding of the religious and historical background to these late medieval texts. It will provide insight into the influence of the biblical Apocalypse upon the literature of the period in a systematic way. Importantly, by treating the writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland as contemporaneous the book balances the female and male approaches to and engagement with the biblical Apocalypse.
