Lydgate Matters Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century

by Cooper, Lisa H.; Denny-Brown, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9781403976741
• ISBN10: 1403976740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection seeks to re-evaluate fifteenth-century English poetry in light of recent scholarly interest in the verse of popular poet John Lydgate and medieval material culture more broadly.

Author Biography

Lisa H. Cooper is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Andrea Denny-Brown is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lydgate Matters	p. 1
Lydgate and London's Public Culture	p. 13
Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycome and Chychevache	p. 35
Sovereignty and Sewage	p. 57
Lydgate's Worst Poem	p. 71
"Markys...off the Workman": Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man	p. 89
Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters	p. 113
St. George and the "Steyned Halle": Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers	p. 139
Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption	p. 165
Afterword: Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When	p. 185
List of Contributors	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 215
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