The Literary History of England
The Literary History of England

Author: Kemp Malone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1134948336

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The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students.The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another and placing each author clearly in the setting of his time.Reviewing the first edition, The Times Literary Supplement commented: 'in inclusiveness and in judgment it has few rivals of its kind'.This first volume covers The Middle Ages (to 1500) in two sections: The Old English Period (to 1100) by Kemp Malone (John Hopkins University), and The Middle English Per.

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Published: 1912

Total Pages: 366

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Chaucer's Early Poetry (Routledge Revivals)
Chaucer's Early Poetry (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Wolfgang Clemen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1135093660

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First published in 1963, this book provides an account of Chaucer’s poetry written before The Canterbury Tales. W. H. Clemen gives full, comprehensive and intriguing accounts of three major poems including The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, and The Parliament of Fowls in addition to some other, more minor poems from Chaucer’s oeuvre.

English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Author: Piero Boitani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-07-31

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521311496

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In this detailed study of English narrative verse the author describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to more well-known poems.

False Fables and Exemplary Truth
False Fables and Exemplary Truth

Author: E. Allen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1137044799

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This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.

The Dialogue on Miracles
The Dialogue on Miracles

Author: Caesarius of Heisterbach

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0879072148

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Caesarius was a monk at the Cistercian monastery of Heisterbach in Germany, where he served as Master of novices. For their instruction and edification, he composed his lengthy Dialogue on Miracles in twelve sections between 1219 and 1223. The many surviving manuscripts of this and other works by Caesarius attest to his stature in the history of Cistercian letters. This volume contains sections one through six of Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles, the first complete translation into English of an influential representation of exempla literature from the Middle Ages. Caesarius’s stories provide a splendid index to monastic life, religious practices, and daily life in a tumultuous time.