The medieval Python

By Terry Jones, Robert F. Yeager, Toshiyuki Takamiya

Subjects: Appreciation, Historians, great britain, Literature, medieval, Medieval Literature, Civilization, medieval, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Medievalists, Study and teaching, Medieval Civilization, Knowledge and learning, RELIGION / General, History and criticism, English literature, HISTORY / Medieval

Description: "The Medieval Python: Essays presented to Terry Jones on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday collects original essays by eighteen prominent medievalists in literature and history to celebrate the work of a dedicated independent scholar whose consistently independent literary and historical criticism has several times redirected how we understand the world of Chaucer and his contemporaries. His film and television productions have entertained and educated generations of viewers about life in the Middle Ages"--