Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions (York Manuscripts Conference, 5) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903153093 ISBN 13: 9781903153093

Publisher: York Medieval Press, 2001

Synopsis

A wide range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is read in terms of theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture, and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the production and transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A. BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G. EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD, ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.

About this edition

• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1903153093
• ISBN 13: 9781903153093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Alastair J. Minnis Professor Alastair J.