The Cambridge History of Medieval English LiteratureDavid Wallace 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. |
Contents
ANGLONORMAN CULTURES IN ENGLAND 10661460 | 35 |
EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH | 61 |
NATIONAL WORLD AND WOMENS HISTORY WRITERS AND READERS OF ENGLISH IN POSTCONQUEST ENGLAND | 92 |
LATINITAS | 122 |
ROMANCE IN ENGLAND 10661400 | 152 |
WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES | 177 |
Introduction | 179 |
WRITING IN WALES | 182 |
ALLITERATIVE POETRY | 488 |
PIERS PLOWMAN | 513 |
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH MYSTICS | 539 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 566 |
JOHN GOWER | 589 |
MIDDLE ENGLISH LIVES | 610 |
BEFORE THE REFORMATION | 635 |
Introduction | 637 |
WRITING IN IRELAND | 208 |
WRITING IN SCOTLAND 10581560 | 229 |
WRITING HISTORY IN ENGLAND | 255 |
LONDON TEXTS AND LITERATE PRACTICE | 284 |
INSTITUTIONAL PRODUCTIONS | 311 |
Introduction | 313 |
MONASTIC PRODUCTIONS | 316 |
THE FRIARS AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE | 349 |
CLASSROOM AND CONFESSION | 376 |
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND LAW | 407 |
VOX POPULI AND THE LITERATURE OF 1381 | 432 |
ENGLISHING THE BIBLE 10661549 | 454 |
AFTER THE BLACK DEATH | 483 |
Introduction | 485 |
HOCCLEVE LYDGATE AND THE LANCASTRIAN COURT | 640 |
LOLLARDY | 662 |
ROMANCE AFTER 1400 | 690 |
WILLIAM CAXTON | 720 |
ENGLISH DRAMA FROM UNGODLY LUDITO SACRED PLAY | 739 |
THE ALLEGORICAL THEATRE MORALITIES INTERLUDES AND PROTESTANT DRAMA | 767 |
THE EXPERIENCE OF EXCLUSION LITERATURE AND POLITICS IN THE REIGNS OF HENRY VII AND HENRY VIII | 793 |
REFORMED LITERATURE AND LITERATURE REFORMED | 821 |
Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain 10501550 | 852 |
Bibliography | 881 |
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