| Description |
viii, 188 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface 1 -- Introduction 3 -- The Religious Context 7 -- Literacy and Reading 11 -- The Medieval Poet 14 -- Thinking Medievally 17 -- On to the Literature 19 -- I.Beowulf 21 -- On Digressions 00 -- Of Kings and Monsters 00 -- The Trouble with Geats 00 -- Beowulf and the Question of Evil 00 -- II.Chrťien de Troyes 00 -- Epic and Romance 00 -- Erec and Enide and Yvain 00 -- Lancelot and Perceval 00 -- III.The Lais of Marie de France 00 -- Medieval Women Writers 00 -- The Lays 00 -- IV.The Romance of the Rose 00 -- A Medieval "Best-Seller" 00 -- Focusing on Love 00 -- Guillaume's Dream 00 -- Jean Takes Over 00 -- V.The Tale of Genji 00 -- Leaving Europe 00 -- VI.Jewish Literature 00 -- The Jews in Christian Europe 00 -- The Jews in Moslem Spain 00 -- VII.Sagas 00 -- Iceland and the Sagas 00 -- Egil and Laxdoela 00 -- Njal's Saga 00 -- VIII.Dante 00 -- The High Point of the Middle Ages 00 -- Hell 00 -- Purgatory 00 -- Paradise 00 -- IX.Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 00 -- Fourteenth-Century England 00 -- Pearl 00 -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 00 -- X.Chaucer 00 -- Chaucer's Contemporaries 00 -- Early Chaucer 00 -- The Canterbury Tales 00 -- Epilogue (But Not a Retraction): From the Author to the Reader 000 -- Notes 000 -- Bibliography 000 -- Index 000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186) and index |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
2003010126 |
| ISBN |
0786416483 softcover alkaline paper |
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