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