The Medieval Period lasted from 455 CE to 1485 CE, and it is characterized by the following:
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English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100
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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English contains 44 newly commissioned essays focused on key texts, authors and issues alongside innovative studies of new themes and ideas from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics,manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, andthe Gawain Poet.
Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature by
Using 13th-century penitentials, monastic exempla, and sermons, Ash clarifies how secular wifehood was recast as a quasi-religious role and, in German epics and romances from the late 12th and early 13th centuries, how female characters are adapted to promote the salvific nature of worldly love.
An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer by
Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser-known verses. Book jacket.
