Author: Walter William Skeat
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: Walter William Skeat
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Languages : en
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Author: Gamelyn
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Devani Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009231103
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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The first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period, this book focuses chiefly on fifteenth-century manuscripts and discusses how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed in an age of the poet's prominence in print. Each chapter argues that patterns in the material interventions made by readers in their manuscripts – correcting, completing, supplementing, and authorising – reflect conventions which circulated in print, and convey prevailing preoccupations about Chaucer in the period: the antiquity and accuracy of his words, the completeness of individual texts and of the canon, and the figure of the author himself. This unexpected and compelling evidence of the interactions between fifteenth-century manuscripts and their early modern analogues asserts print's role in sustaining manuscript culture and thus offers fresh scholarly perspectives to medievalists, early modernists, and historians of the book. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Languages : en
Pages : 954

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Author: Noël James Menuge
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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This title explores how wardship literature in romance may be used in studies of wardship, and how it may complement an understanding of legal history. Wardship discourse is examined in a variety of sources - legal treatises, cases, and romance.

Author: Geraldine Barnes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913621
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.

Author: J. Twyning
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284706
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history.

Author: J. Spiers
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230299369
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.

Author: John M. Bowers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192665294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted with both Tolkien's own annotations and new notes from the authors, this book analyses his major articles such as ^"Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale", as well as his unpublished edition of the Reeve's Tale and his lectures on the Clerk's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale. Though his scholarship was best known for his work on Beowulf, Tolkien was also an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer. He lectured on Chaucer, edited Chaucer, and published essays on Chaucer. Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 reprints many of these works for the first time, and documents Tolkien's career-long engagement with the poet and traces his influence in Tolkien's own works. Bowers and Steffensen reveal how the Reeve's Tale was a source for Tolkien's description of Merry and Pippin's battle with Saruman, and how the Pardoner's Tale influenced Tolkien's own story of men fighting to the death over a gold treasure. Chaucer emerges as a major source of inspiration for Tolkien's creative writings and profoundly formative in the creation of The Lord of the Rings.