Book Description
A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature.
Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,39 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 : 45,42 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 : 44,5 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 : Robert Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,47 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 : Jennifer Jahner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 40,67 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 : Diane Watt
Publisher : Polity
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745632556
Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,4 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 : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 29,58 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 : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,56 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 : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 113484333X
Much more wide-ranging in time and space than its competitors, more comprehensive than anything currently available Clear and accessible editorial material, all extracts in modern English - designed to be for the undergraduate student in what is a growing area of study Up to date bibiography makes it useful to scholars as well as students for research