The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David Wallace |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1060 |
Release | 2002-04-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521890465 |
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.
The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Clare A. Lees |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 910 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 131617509X |
Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Galloway |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2011-03-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521856892 |
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Candace Barrington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2019-08-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107180783 |
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The end of the Middle Ages
Title | The Cambridge History of English Literature: The end of the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Adolphus William Ward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The New Cambridge History of English Literature
Title | The New Cambridge History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Clare A. Lees |
Publisher | |
Pages | 6400 |
Release | 2013-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781107035034 |
A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its development.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Title | The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West PDF eBook |
Author | Alison I. Beach |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-01-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1108770630 |
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.