Middle English Literature - An Historical Sourcebook

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Boyd Goldie is Assistant Professor of English at Rider University. Klappentext This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. The documents have been chosen to complement the themes and styles that appear in the literature, enabling students to compare fourteenth- and fifteenth-century creative writing with contemporary debates on a range of important topics such as friars, marriage, Lollardy, the perception of non-Western others, lechery, law, the revolt of 1382, books, and the English language. Twelve images are also included. Modern English translations have been used where the texts were originally written in Latin and French, but Middle English selections remain in Middle English, with glosses and explanatory footnotes where necessary. Succinct introductions help to place the documents in relation to historical, authorial, and manuscript contexts. Select bibliographies list other related medieval works and the most helpful secondary studies. This collection of 14th and 15th-century historical and cultural texts has been designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature, to make them familiar with the cultural changes that occurred in England during these years.

Product details

• Authors: Goldie, Matthew Boyd Goldie
• Assisted by: Matthew Boyd Goldie (Editor), Matthew Boyd (Rider University) Goldie (Editor)
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2003
• EAN: 9780631231479
• ISBN: 978-0-631-23147-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies