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Author: John Lydgate
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Category : Legends
Languages : la
Pages : 600
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Author: John Lydgate
Publisher:
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Category : Legends
Languages : la
Pages : 600
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Author: John Lydgate
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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To introduce John Lydgate's landmark poem the Troy Book to students and non-specialist readers, the editor has selected the essential passages from the poem and bridges any gaps with textual summaries. Also included are an introduction, gloss, notes, and a glossary. John Lydgate, a monk of the great Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, began composing the poem, an ambitious attempt at recounting the Trojan War in Middle English, in October 1412 on commission from Henry, Prince of Wales (later King Henry V), and completed it in 1420. The poem is an interesting study for those interested in medieval approaches to classical sources, as well as for its often contradictory and complicated take on contemporary chivalry.
Author: John Lydgate
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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Author: Derek Pearsall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429582382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval. The book analyses Lydgate’s background in literary tradition and compares this with Chaucer’s work. The book looks at Lydgate as a professional craftsman and examines how his work adapted to the demands and occasions of his age. Without over-valuing the poetry, this approach makes it possible to discriminate with increased objectivity between the more and less worthwhile and to distinguish the unexpectedly large number of poems in which craftsman-like competence rises to rhetorical artistry of a high order. In accepting Lydgate as the epitome of his age, the book also provides a diagram of the medieval poetic mind in its basic form and suggests the usefulness of Lydgate as a source book for the understanding of medieval literature.
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Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Author: John Lydgate
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: Raoul Lefèvre
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Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: John Lydgate
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Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Jason Colavito
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105198944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Władysław Witalisz
Publisher: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
ISBN: 9783631605936
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues of contemporary politics and morality. The medieval stories of the fall of Troy are viewed as educational texts offering advice on moral and political conduct related in their aims to the genre of the medieval speculum. Four major verse narratives of the history of the Trojan War composed in Middle English at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century are discussed: the anonymous Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy, the Laud Troy Book, the Seege of Troye and John Lydgate's Troy Book.
