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Public Piers Plowman
Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture
Inbunden, 2004
943 kr
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The fourteenth-century alliterative poem Piers Plowman was widely popular in its own day. The number of its surviving manuscripts ranks just below that of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Although the poem has been the subject of some interesting recent critical scholarship, it continues to be …
Public Piers Plowman
Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture
Häftad, 2004
516 kr
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The fourteenth-century alliterative poem Piers Plowman was widely popular in its own day. The number of its surviving manuscripts ranks just below that of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Although the poem has been the subject of some interesting recent critical scholarship, it continues to be …
Imagined Romes
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
Inbunden, 2019
1284 kr
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This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry.Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, …
Imagined Romes
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
Häftad, 2020
670 kr
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This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry.Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, …
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Inbunden, 2019
2095 kr
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Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres, …
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Häftad, 2021
626 kr
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Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres, …
Chaucer's Drama of Style
Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 1988
575 kr
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David Benson's lively new interpretation of Chaucer's great story collection attributes the variety and contrast of the tales to the unique literary style of each narrative. In contrast to the popular ""dramatic approach,"" which assumes that the diversity of the tales comes from the supposed …
Chaucer's Religious Tales
Av C. David Benson, C. David Benson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1428 kr
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These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the Canterbury Tales, the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the Clerk's Tale, the Man of Law's Tale, the …
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
E-bok, 2019
721 kr
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Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales , the author argues that it has its own profound multiplicity. Its mixture of …
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
E-bok, 2019
721 kr
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Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world’s great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales , the author argues that it has its own profound multiplicity. Its mixture of …
Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-version
Av C. David Benson, Lynne S. Blanchfield
Häftad, 1997
681 kr
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In-depth examination of the surviving medieval records of this great poem that stands at the beginning of the English tradition.Easy to use catalogue of the B-text manuscripts for scholars wishing to consult the manuscripts held together in one location with a minimum use of specialist terminology …
Book of John Mandeville
Av Tamarah Kohanski, C. David Benson
Häftad, 2007
277 kr
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The Book of John Mandeville comprises a fourteenth-century bestseller of the Middle Ages, providing European readers with exoticized information regarding Constantinople, China, and the religious practices of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Despite the fact that its supposed author, Sir …
