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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer Andrew Cole After the late 14th century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Chaucer, Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, T… OL11885949W
Living death in medieval French and English literature Living death in medieval French and English literature Jane Gilbert "Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deat… OL16010964W
The last Plantagenet consorts The last Plantagenet consorts Kavita Mudan Finn "Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century queens understandably focus on separating what really happened from what was fabricated. What has not been considered in any detail, however, is the fabrica… OL16343324W
The medieval Python The medieval Python Terry Jones,Robert F. Yeager,Toshiyuki Takamiya "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… OL16442315W
Quoting Speech in Early English Quoting Speech in Early English Colette Moore "Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. When we add our pr… OL16516845W
New perspectives on Middle English texts New perspectives on Middle English texts Susan Powell,J. J. Smith,Ronald Waldron xi, 190 p. : 25 cm OL18911203W
Participatory reading in late-medieval England Participatory reading in late-medieval England Heather Blatt This book explores how modern media practices can illuminate participatory reading in England from the late-fourteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. Nonlinear apprehension, immersion and embodime… OL20578670W
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft Scribal Correction and Literary Craft Daniel Wakelin xviii, 345 pages ; 24 cm OL21082885W
Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering Bonnie Wheeler,R. F. Yeager,Hill, John M. vi, 297 pages ; 24 cm OL21796848W
Absent narratives, manuscript textuality, and literary structure in late medieval England Absent narratives, manuscript textuality, and literary structure in late medieval England Elizabeth Scala "Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the majo… OL5956293W
The bureaucratic muse The bureaucratic muse Ethan Knapp "In The Bureaucratic Muse, Ethan Knapp investigates the connections between Hoccleve's poetic corpus and his life as a clerk of the Privy Seal. The early fifteenth century was a watershed moment in t… OL6210222W
Concise Companion to Middle English Literature, 1100-1500 (Concise Companions to Literature and Cul… Concise Companion to Middle English Literature, 1100-1500 (Concise Companions to Literature and Cul… Marilyn Corrie xii, 268 pages : 24 cm OL9699803W