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,

edited by Peter Brown

Blackwell Pub.,

xvii, 668 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;42

Overviews. Critical approaches / David Raybin ; English society in the later Middle Ages : deference, ambition and conflict / S. H. Rigby ; Religious authority and dissent / Mishtooni Bose ; City and country, wealth and labour / Sarah Rees Jones ; Womenʹs voices and roles / Carol M. Meale -- The production and reception of texts. Manuscripts and readers / A. S. G. Edwards ; From manuscript to modern text / Julia Boffey ; Translation and society / Catherine Batt -- Language and literature. The languages of medieval Britain / Laura Wright ; The forms of speech / Donka Minkova ; The forms of verse / Donka Minkova -- Encounters with other cultures. England and France / Ardis Butterfield ; Britain and Italy : trade, travel, translation / Nick Havely ; Englandʹs antiquities : Middle English literature and the classical past / Christopher Baswell ; Jews, Saracens, ʹblack men,ʹ Tartars : England in a world of racial difference / Geraldine Heng -- Special themes. War and chivalry / Richard W. Kaeuper and Montgomery Bohna ; Literature and law / Richard Firth Green ; Images / Peter Brown ; Love / Barry Windeatt -- Genres. Middle English romance / Thomas Hahn and Dana M. Symons ; Writing nation : shaping identity in medieval historical narratives / Raluca L. Radulescu ; Dream poems / Helen Phillips ; Lyric / Rosemary Greentree ; Literature of religious instruction / E. A. Jones ; Mystical and devotional literature / Denise N. Baker ; Accounts of lives / Kathleen Ashley ; Medieval English theatre : codes and genres / Meg Twycross ; Morality and interlude drama / Darryll Grantley -- Readings. York mystery plays / Pamela King ; The Book of Margery Kempe / Ruth Evans ; Julian of Norwich / Santha Bhattacharji ; Piers Plowman / Stephen Kelly ; Subjectivity and ideology in the Canterbury tales / Mark Miller ; John Gower and John Lydgate : forms and norms of rhetorical culture / J. Allan Mitchell ; Thomas Hoccleve, La male regle / Nicholas Perkins ; Discipline and relaxation in the poetry of Robert Henryson / R. James Goldstein ; Sir Gawain and the green knight / Kevin Gustafson ; Blood and love in Maloryʹs Morte Darthur / Catherine La Farge.

AU Brown, Peter 1948 , 1948 , 1948

PR

255

.C653

2007

9780631219736 (alk. paper) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

2007