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The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / edited by David Wallace. [electronic resource...

The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / ...

The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / edited by David Wallace. [electronic resource...

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The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / edited by David Wallace. [electronic resource]

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Full title

The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / edited by David Wallace. [electronic resource]

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Alternative title

BOOK

Record Identifier

74VKVwNO3Dab

MMS ID

991023965623602626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (xxv, 1043 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Contents

Pt. 1. After the Norman conquest. Old English and its afterlife / Seth Lerer -- Anglo-Norman cultures in England, 1066-1460 / Susan Crane -- Early Middle English / Thomas Hahn -- National, world and women's history : writers and reads in post-Conquest England / Lesley Johnson and Jocelyn Wogan- Brow...

(cont.) The friars and medieval English literature / John V. Fleming -- Classroom and confession / Marjorie Curry Woods and Rita Copeland -- Medieval literature and law / Richard Firth Green -- Vox populi and the literature of 1381 / David Aers -- Englishing the Bible, 1066-1549 / David Lawton -- Pt...

(cont.) English drama : from ungodly ludi to sacred play / Lawrence M Clopper -- The allegorical theatre : moralities, interludes and Protestant drama / John Watkins -- The experience of exclusion : literature and politics in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII / Colin Burrow -- Reformed literatu...

Publication information

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1999.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norma...

Alternative Titles

Full title

The Cambridge history of medieval English literature / edited by David Wallace. [electronic resource]

Variant title

BOOK

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

The new Cambridge history of English literature

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 881-990) and indexes.

Language note

English

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

74VKVwNO3Dab

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVwNO3Dab

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ISBN

1-139-05362-0

DDC

820.9/001

MMS ID

991023965623602626

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