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1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations, 1 portrait |
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Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Foreword: Norman Blake and his Work; Part I: GEOFFREY CHAUCER; Scogan, Shirley''s Reputation and Chaucerian Occasional Verse; ''This was a thrifty tale for the nones'': Chaucer''s Man of Law; Chaucer''s Sense of Wealth; Caxton''s Printing of Chaucer''s Boece; Exemplum et Similitudo: Natural Law in the Manciple''s Tale and the Squire''s Tale; The Tale and the Book: Readings of Chaucer''s Legend of Good Women in the Fifteenth Century; Chaucer and Interest in Astronomy at the Court of Richard II |
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The Use of Caxton Texts and Paper Stocks in Manuscripts of the Canterbury TalesThe Weak Declension of the Adjective and its Importance in Chaucerian Metre; Can we Trust the Hengwrt Manuscript?; Personality and Styles of Affect in the Canterbury Tales; Part II: NON-CHAUCERIAN WRITING; Wynkyn de Worde and Misogyny in Print; An Eighteenth-Century Edition of Hoccleve; Editing and Ideology: Stephen Batman and the Book of Privy Counselling; Notes toward a Future History of Middle English Literature: Two Copies of Richard Rolle''s Form of Living |
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''Deprece Your Prysoun'': Sir Gawain and the Encircling NarrativeThe Enduring Popularity of Thirteenth-Century Verse: The Estorie del Evangelie and the Vernon Manuscript; The Language of Persuasion: De Clerico et Puella from London, British Library MS Harley 2253; Caxton''s Copy-fitting Devices in the Morte Darthur (1485): An Overview; Caxton and the Polychronicon; Index of Chaucer''s Works; A; B; C; F; G; H; L; P; R; T; Index of Manuscripts; A; B; C; D; E; G; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
Norman Blake, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Sheffield University, is known throughout the world to scholars of mediaeval English Literature. He has published thirty books and 140 articles on subjects as diverse as Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, early printed books, Shakespeare, Historical Linguistics, Stylistics, Grammar, and the cultural context of mediaeval England. He is best known as an authority on Chaucer, Caxton and Shakespeare's language, and is director of The Canterbury Tales Project, based in the University of Sheffield, which is a scheme to put all the manuscript and early printed versions of the poem onto computer and to issue the transcribed texts on CD-ROM. Norman has lectured and taught in many countries, and is a frequent contributor to international conferences. He has been a Teaching Quality Assessor in universities in Britain and elsewhere. He is also well known (among many other things) for his work as member of the Council of the Early English Text Society, Editor for the Index of Middle English Prose, General Editor of Macmillan's Language of Literature series, and as Secretary of the European Society of the Study of English. Friends and colleagues of this approachable and widely respected scholar have come together to mark his 65th birthday in spring 1999 by contributing to this volume. The essays-on Chaucer, Caxton and related aspects of Middle English-are not only a tribute to Norman's work but also a valuable contribution to Middle English studies in their own right |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Blake, N. F. (Norman Francis)
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Blake, N. F. (Norman Francis) fast |
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Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492 fast |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Middle English
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Middelengels.
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Letterkunde.
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Festschriften
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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Blake, N. F. (Norman Francis)
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Lester, Geoffrey.
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1847140823 |
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9781847140821 |
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1281292192 |
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9781281292193 |
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9786611292195 |
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6611292195 |
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