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  • Studies in the Age of Gower

    A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager

    by Susannah Chewning, Natalie Grinnell, Peter Nicholson, Richard Firth Green, Roger A. Ladd, Russell Peck, Stephanie L. Batkie, William Rogers, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Andrew Galloway0, Brian Gastle1, David A. Roberts2, Derek Pearsall3, Martha W. Driver4, Matthew Matthew Irvine5, Michael Kuczynski6 ...
    The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Middle English Prose

    Essays on Bibliographical Problems

    Edited by A S G Edwards, Derek Pearsall ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of scholarship covering such areas as editorial technique and middle English mystical prose, as well as focusing more in detail on specific prose such as Nicholas Love’s Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Gothic Europe 1200-1450

    by Derek Pearsall ...
    Series series Arts Culture and Society in the Western World
    This uniquely ambitious history offers an account of all aspects of cultural activity and production throughout the world of Latin Christendom 1200-1450. Beginning with a detailed description of the political and economic circumstances that allowed the 'Gothic Moment' to flourish, the body of the book is both a celebration of the Gothic cultural achievement - in cathedral-building, in manuscript ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Derek Pearsall ...
    This classic and eminently readable work provides a full critical introduction to the complete Canterbury Tales. Essential reading for students of Chaucer. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England

    Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney

    by Holly James-Maddocks, Professor Michael G Sargent, Joel Fredell, Professor Wendy Scase, Susan Powell, Professor Daniel W Mosser, Simon Horobin, Derek Pearsall, Daryl Green0, Margaret Connolly2, Martha W. Driver3, Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton4, Ralph Hanna5, Estelle Stubbs6, Professor Sebastian Sobecki7 ...
    Series Book 3 - York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
    Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Old English and Middle English Poetry

    by Derek Pearsall ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
    Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the functions that it was assigned are historically integral to an informed understanding of the nature of poetry. The book aims to relate poems to the intellectual and formal traditions by which they are ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • John Lydgate

    by Derek Pearsall ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
    Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval. The book analyses Lydgate’s background in literary tradition and compares this with Chaucer’s work. The book looks at Lydgate as a professional craftsman ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Medieval Texts in Context

    Edited by Graham D. Caie, Denis Renevey ...
    This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • A Critical Companion to John Skelton

    by Professor Sebastian I. Sobecki, John A. Burrow, John Scattergood, Julia Boffey, Nadine Kuipers, Thomas Betteridge, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Carol Meale, David R. Carlson0, Elisabeth Dutton1, Greg Waite2, Helen Cooper3, Jane Griffiths4 ...
    John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

    Edited by Thomas N. Corns ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an ... Read more

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