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A Companion to Middle English Prose
Professor A. S. G. Edwards (Ed.)
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Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle English prose. The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historicalprose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A. WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843842484
SKU
V9781843842484
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About Professor A. S. G. Edwards (Ed.)
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.
Reviews for A Companion to Middle English Prose
A much-needed resource.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
[A] fine collection of essays from which Middle English prose emerges once again as one of the most stimulating and exciting areas of medieval literature. There can be no doubt that A Companion to Middle English Prose will establish itself in no time as a sine qua non for all who find themselves drawn to this rapidly developing field.
ANGLIA
This is a book which should have a place on the shelves of every university where Medieval English is taught.
RICARDIAN
An up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres.
MEDIUM AEVUM
Timely and welcome. [...]the scope, and calibre, of research in the Companion, above all, firmly establishes and surveys the valuable work already carried out.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
[A] fine collection of essays from which Middle English prose emerges once again as one of the most stimulating and exciting areas of medieval literature. There can be no doubt that A Companion to Middle English Prose will establish itself in no time as a sine qua non for all who find themselves drawn to this rapidly developing field.
ANGLIA
This is a book which should have a place on the shelves of every university where Medieval English is taught.
RICARDIAN
An up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres.
MEDIUM AEVUM
Timely and welcome. [...]the scope, and calibre, of research in the Companion, above all, firmly establishes and surveys the valuable work already carried out.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS