Reading Middle English LiteratureISBN: 978-0-631-23171-4
Hardcover
224 pages
September 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.
Abbreviations.
Introduction.
1. The Use of English.
Three Languages.
The Choice of English.
Social Register.
2. Texts and Manuscripts.
Information from Manuscripts.
Scribes and their Manuscripts.
Audiences.
Authors.
3. Literature and Society.
Bond and Free.
Social Tensions in the Reeve's Tale.
Ploughing Piers' Half Acre.
At the Court of King Arthur.
In Criseyde's Palace.
4. History and Romance.
Definitions.
Monastic History.
The History of St Erkenwald.
Englishing Arthur.
The Fairy World.
5. Piety.
From Pecham to Arundel.
Christ the Lover and God the Unknowable.
Retelling Biblical Stories.
The Death of a Child.
6. Love and Marriage.
Marriage and Love - and Sex.
A Lover's Confession.
Love's Craft.
'All this Mean I by Love'.
Bibliography.
Index.
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