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9780470752128

Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470752128

  • ISBN10:

    0470752122

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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. Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts. Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in Chaucer and other Middle English literature. Contains twelve important images from the period. Concise introductions and bibliographies accompany all documents.

Table of Contents

List of Literary Works and Related Topics
Table of Dates, 1325û1500
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Conventions And Institutions
Benedictine Rule
Friars
Humors
Marriage
Pilgrimage
Prioresses
Force And Order
Battle of Agincourt
The English and England
Lollardy Trials
Usurpation
Gender, Sexuality, And Difference
Amazons
Chastity, Marriage, Widowhood, And Virginity
The Far East
GodÆs Unknowability
Lechers And Sodomites
Saracens
Women: Margaret Paston
Images
Lovell Lectionary
Anne Of Burgundy, Duchess Of Bedford, Before St. Anne
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere)
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Hengwrt)
Chaucer Portrait: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment Of Princes
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Court Of KingÆs Bench
öMiracle Of The Boy Singerö
New College, Oxford University
Revolt: Jean Froissart, Chroniques
Richard Ii Presented To The Virgin And Christ
Royal Benefactors
Labor And Capital
Guilds
Ordinance And Statute Of Laborers
Pestilence
The Revolt
Style And Spectacle
Feasts
The Hunt
Pageants
Processions
Sumptuary
Tournaments
Textualities
Audience Reactions To Sermons
Books
Censorship
Enarratio (Analysis And Exposition Of Texts)
The English Language
Plays and Representations
Appendix: Currency, Income, Prices; Measures
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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