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The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature

Series The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Volume 1

Edited by David Wallace

Publication Date 1999

Hardback ISBN-10
0521444209

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521444200

Overview

This is 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 Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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After the Norman Conquest

Writing in the British Isles

Institutional Production

After the Black Death

Before the Reformation

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