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Klappentext Elizabeth Salter's principal works and essays are collected here in one volume. Zusammenfassung This 1988 volume! collected here are the principal essays of Elizabeth Salter published between 1966 and her death in 1980. She is recognised as one of the most distinguished medieval scholars of her generation! particularly noted for her work on Langland and Chaucer! and on the relationship of literature and the visual arts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates and plate acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Part I. An Obsession with the Continent: Introduction; 1. Cultural patterns in twelfth-century England: Norman and Angevin; 2. Culture and literature in earlier thirteenth-century England: national and international; 3. England and the continent during the thirteenth century: royal and aristocratic patronage; Part II. Piers Plowman and Alliterative Poetry: 4. The alliterative revival; 5. Piers Plowman: an introduction; 6. Piers Plowman and The Simonie; 7. Alliterative modes and affiliations in the fourteenth century; 8. The timeliness of Wynnere and Wastoure; 9. A Complaint against Blacksmiths; Part III. Chaucer: 10. Troilus and Criseyde: a reconsideration; 11. Troilus and Criseyde: poet and narrator; 12. Chaucer and Internationalism; Part IV. Literature and the Visual Arts: 13. Medieval poetry and the visual arts; 14. Piers Plowman and the visual arts; 15. The Troilus Frontispiece; 16. The Annuciation to the Shepherds in later medieval art and drama; Notes; Bibliography of the published writings of Elizabeth Salter; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Salter Elizabeth, Derek Pearsall, Elizabeth Salter, Salter Elizabeth
• Assisted by: Derek Pearsall (Editor), Pearsall Derek (Editor), Nicolette Zeeman (Editor), Zeeman Nicolette (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521131612
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13161-2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, ART / European, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval