A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500Peter 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.
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Contents
Overviews | 7 |
Deference Ambition | 25 |
Religious Authority and Dissent | 40 |
City and Country Wealth and Labour | 56 |
Womens Voices and Roles | 74 |
The Production and Reception of Texts | 91 |
From Manuscript to Modern Text | 107 |
Translation and Society | 123 |
Shaping Identity in Medieval Historical Narratives | 358 |
Dream Poems | 374 |
Lyric | 387 |
Literature of Religious Instruction | 406 |
Mystical and Devotional Literature | 423 |
Accounts of Lives | 437 |
Codes and Genres | 454 |
Morality and Interlude Drama | 473 |
Language and Literature | 141 |
The Forms of Speech | 159 |
Donka Minkova | 176 |
Encounters with Other Cultures | 197 |
Trade Travel Translation | 215 |
Middle English Literature and the Classical Past | 231 |
England in a World of Racial | 247 |
Special Themes | 271 |
Literature and Law | 292 |
Images | 307 |
Love | 322 |
Genres | 339 |
Readings | 489 |
The Book of Margery Kempe | 507 |
Julian of Norwich | 522 |
Piers Plowman | 537 |
Subjectivity and Ideology in the Canterbury Tales | 554 |
Forms and Norms of Rhetorical | 569 |
Thomas Hoccleve La Male Regle | 585 |
Discipline and Relaxation in the Poetry of Robert Henryson | 605 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 619 |
Blood and Love in Malorys Morte Darthur | 634 |
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A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 Peter Brown Limited preview - 2008 |
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