Title The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / edited by David Wallace

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 1043 pages) Series New Cambridge history of English literature New Cambridge history of English literature. Contents I AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST -- Old English and its afterlife / Seth Lerer -- Anglo-Norman cultures in England, 1066-1460 / Susan Crane -- Early Middle English / Thomas Hahn -- National, world and women's history: writers and readers in post-Conquest England / Lesley Johnson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Latinitas / Christopher Baswell -- Romance in England, 1066-1400 / Rosalind Field -- II WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES -- Writing in Wales / Brynley F. Roberts -- Writing in Ireland / Terence Dolan -- Writing in Scotland, 1058-1560 / R. James Goldstein -- Writing history in England / Andrew Galloway -- London texts and literate practice / Sheila Lindenbaum -- III INSTITUTIONAL PRODUCTION -- Monastic productions / Christopher Cannon -- The friars and medieval English literature / John V. Fleming -- Classroom and confession / Marjorie Curry Woods and Rita Copeland -- Medieval literature and law / Richard Firth Green -- Vox populi and the literature of 1381 / David Aers -- Englishing the Bible, 1066-1549 / David Lawton -- IV AFTER THE BLACK DEATH -- Alliterative poetry / Ralph Hanna -- Piers Plowman / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- The Middle English Mystics / Nicholas Watson -- Geoffrey Chaucer / Glending Olson -- John Gower / Winthrop Wetherbee -- Middle English lives / Julia Boffey -- V BEFORE THE REFORMATION -- Hoccleve, Lydgate and the Lancastrian court / Paul Strohm -- Lollardy / Steven Justice -- Romance after 1400 / Helen Cooper -- William Caxton / Seth Lerer -- English drama: from ungodly ludi to sacred play / Lawrence M. Clopper -- The allegorical theatre: moralities, interludes, and Protestant drama / John Watkins -- The experience of exclusion: literature and politics in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII / Colin Burrow -- Reformed literature and literature reformed / Brian Cummings -- Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1050-1550 / William P. Marvin -- Bibliography / William P. Marvin After the Norman conquest -- Writing in the British Isles -- Institutional productions -- After the Black Death -- Before the Reformation Summary This volume offers an account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 881-990) and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism English literature -- Early modern. English literature -- Middle English. Intellectual life. Bellettrie. Middelengels. Oudengels. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056853 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056852 Subject Great Britain. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Wallace, David, 1954- LC no. 97042232 ISBN 9781139053624 1139053620 9780511468247 0511468245 9781139053624 0521890462 9780521890465

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