The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature in nearly a century. Thirty-three contributors provide information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception. The volume also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists. Pt. 1. 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 Reads In Post-conquest England / Lesley Johnson And Jocelyn Wogan- Browne -- Latinitas / Christopher Baswell -- Romance In England, 1066-1400 / Roasalind Field -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. Institutional Productions. Monastic Productions / Christopher Cannon -- (cont.) 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 -- Pt. 4. 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 -- Pt. 5. Before The Reformation. Hoccleve, Lydgate And The Lancastrian Court / Paul Strohm -- Lollardy / Steven Justice -- Romance After 1400 / Helen Cooper -- William Caxton / Sether Lerer -- (cont.) 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. Edited By David Wallace. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 881-990) And Indexes. This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative 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, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors provide information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception. The volume also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book often the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. 38).pdf......Page 0 Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments......Page 917 The Style and Authorship......Page 948 Core and Periphery in Medieval Europe:......Page 1004 James IV......Page 987 Untitled......Page 909 The St Albans Chroniclers and Magna Carta......Page 975 Untitled......Page 927 Liber Albus......Page 928 Untitled......Page 952 This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman Conquest and the death of Henry VIII