From the Norman Conquest to the Black Death
An Anthology of Writings from England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 February 2011
- ISBN 9780198123538
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages612 pages
- Size 238x162x41 mm
- Weight 1064 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Three maps 0
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Short description:
This anthology makes available to the modern reader a range of texts produced in the often overlooked period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. A wide variety of texts - chronicle, history, legends, plays, lyrics, debates, romances, and stories of all shapes and kinds - are included in translation or helpfully glossed form.
MoreLong description:
It is often supposed that there is between the 'Old English' period that produced Beowulf and the 'Middle English' period that produced Chaucer a kind of literary 'gap' in which little or nothing happened. In fact a very large quantity of fascinating work, mainly in Latin or Anglo-Norman, but also in 'Early Middle English', appeared. This anthology makes available to the modern reader a range of texts from this period, in translation or helpfully glossed form, providing something of the rich treasure trove of literature that was produced between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. The diversity of genres included here is astonishing - chronicle, history, legends, plays, lyrics, debates, romances, and stories of all shapes and kinds. This anthology will prove to be indispensable reading for the study of Medieval English literature.
this anthology is an ideal core textbook for an undergraduate course on the literature of England in the three centuries after the Norman Conquest ... The real triumph of this volume is that it manages to present 'difficult' material in a way that is clear and inviting but not oversimplified ... In the variety, quality, and interest of its contents, this anthology constitutes a very compelling argument for the study of English literature from the Conquest to the Plague.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Chronology
Maps
Introduction
Conquest and Conqueror
Early Anglo-Latin Religious Prose
Science, Learning, and Instructive Stories
Early Anglo-Latin Historians, Scholars, Encyclopedists, and Entertainers
'The Matter of Britain': Geoffrey of Monmouth
Early Anglo-Norman Poetry: Benedeit's Voyage of St Brendan
Anglo-Norman Verse Chronicles
English in the Earlier Period
Science, Learning, and Instruction: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
'The Matter of Britain' in English: Layamon's Brut
Anglo-Latin Poetry: Songs and Satire
Saints' Lives and Visions
Anglo-Norman Romances
Romances and Outlaw Tales
Tales of Antiquity
Short Romances and Lais: Marie the France
Fables and Animal Stories: Marie de France and others
Debate: The Owl and the Nightingale
Burlesque, Parody, Merry Tale
Early Middle English Religious Prose: the 'Katherine Group', the 'Wooing Group', and Ancrene Wisse
Moral and Religious Verse and Prose
English Romances
Lyrics, Anglo-Norman and Middle English
Drama
Later Chroniclers, Scholars and Theologians
English Narrative in the earlier Fourteenth Century: Robert Mannyng
Earlier Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Poems
Earlier Fourteenth-Century Mystical Writing: Richard Rolle
Private Devotion: Henry of Lancaster's Le Livre de Seyntz
Wonders of the East: Mandeville's Travels
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