Baldwin, Anna P.

An introduction to Medieval English literature : 1300-1485 / Anna Baldwin. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. - xi, 282 p. 22 cm

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. The Poor Commons: literature and social change -- 2. The Poor Commons: education and dissent -- 3. The Urban Middle Class: Satire, Debate and Political Advice -- 4. The Urban Middle Class: Tales of Women and Marriage -- 5. The community of the Church: religious lyrics and the English mystics -- 6. Religious and Moral Stories -- 7. Aristocratic Love -- 8. Chivalric Romances -- Further Reading.

"This book provides an informative, critical and concise introduction to the literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contextualising the literature and introducing the pre-eminent authors of the period. "--

9780230250376 (pbk.)

2015038897


English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.

820.9001 / BAL