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English poetry --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Indexes

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This essential textbook introduces readers to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. The book opens with an introduction to the language of the time, designed to enable the reader to understand the representative pieces of Middle English literature that follow. The authors describe the language as it was used in different parts of the country, show how it evolved over this period, and offer guidance on pronunciation, grammar, metre and vocabulary. Already a standard classroom text, A Book of Middle English has been extensively enhanced for the third edition. The authors have revised key works in light of new editions, updated bibliographic entries, and have added two new texts. Taken as a whole, the book is the ideal overview of Middle English language and literature.

ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- GRAMMAIRE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS)

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English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding. Its focus, however, was still strongly local, not national. This study examines in detail the literary production from the capital before, during, and after the time of the Black Death. In this major contribution to the field, Ralph Hanna charts the development and the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing. He uncovers the interactions between texts and authors across a range of languages and genres: not just Middle English, but Anglo-Norman and Latin; not just romance, but also law, history, and biblical commentary. Hanna emphasises the uneasy boundaries legal thought and discourse shared with historical and 'romance' thinking, and shows how the technique of romance, Latin writing associated with administrative culture, and biblical interests underwrote the great pre-Chaucerian London poem, William Langland's Piers Plowman.

LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- ANGLETERRE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- ANGLETERRE --- LONDRES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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This literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, "Pearl, Cleanness, Patience," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its center, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. Despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

Poésie anglaise --- Chevaliers --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Dans la littérature --- Roman courtois --- Poésie anglaise --- Chevaliers --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Roman courtois --- Histoire et critique