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This volume explores a range of English verse from 1400 to 1500. It studies specific genres and modes of fifteenth-century verse, the contexts for its creation, the material forms of its transmission, and some of its individual practitioners.
List of contents
- 1: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards: Introduction
- Part I. Contexts
- 2: David Rundle: Contexts of English Poetry 1400-1500
- 3: James Simpson: Literary Traditions: Continuity and Change
- 4: Marco Nievergelt: Translation into English
- 5: Jenni Nuttall: Literary Language
- 6: Eric Weiskott: Verse Forms and Prosody
- 7: Robert Meyer-Lee: Authorship and the Production of Poetry
- Part II. Transmission
- 8: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards: Poetic Manuscripts
- 9: Siân Echard: Poetry in Print
- 10: Julia Boffey: Verse outside Books
- Part III. Topics and Genres
- 11: Takami Matsuda: Biblical Paraphrase and Poems of Religious Instruction
- 12: Cynthia Turner Camp: Saints' Lives and Miracles of the Virgin
- 13: Christiania Whitehead: Religious Lyrics and Carols
- 14: Tamara Atkin: The Poetry of Religious and Moral Drama
- 15: A. S. G. Edwards: Science and Information
- 16: Matthew Giancarlo: Conduct Poetry
- 17: Rory G. Critten: Love Visions and Love Poetry
- 18: Andrew Galloway: Chronicle and History
- 19: Venetia Bridges: Fictions of Antiquity
- 20: Aisling Byrne: Fictions of Britain
- 21: Phillipa Hardman: Fictions of Christendom and other late Romances
- 22: Ben Parsons: Popular Tales
- 23: Helen Phillips: Occasional Poetry, Popular Poetry, and the Robin Hood Tradition
- Part IV. Poets
- 24: Robert R. Edwards: John Lydgate
- 25: Sebastian Langdell: Thomas Hoccleve
- 26: Joanna Martin: Robert Henryson
- 27: Pamela King: William Dunbar
- 28: Jane Griffiths: Fifteenth-Century Transitions
About the author
Julia Boffey is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London. She has written on various aspects of the production, transmission, and reception of late medieval literature in Britain. Publications include an edition of Middle English dream visions, a book on Manuscript and Print in London c. 1475-1530, and edited essay collections on Middle English lyrics and Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England. She is a member of the council of the Early English Text Society and of the Harlaxton Symposium Steering Committee.
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts in the School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury and Honorary Professor in the English Department at University College London. He has previously taught at various universities in North America and England and at the Folger and Beinecke libraries. He has written about Middle English manuscripts and texts of the later middle ages and early modern periods. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, Girton College, Cambridge, and the Huntington and Houghton libraries.
Summary
This volume explores a range of English verse from 1400 to 1500. It studies specific genres and modes of fifteenth-century verse, the contexts for its creation, the material forms of its transmission, and some of its individual practitioners.
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Volume 3, equally rich and well curated, maintains the same focus on variety. As we enter the world of the fifteenth century, however, contextual and generic changes mark a transformed literary landscape...There were significant new trends and genres. Attention is given throughout this volume to the flourishing production and circulation of Scottish literature.
