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9781405159630 | Blackwell Pub, April 26, 2010, cover price $53.95

This book is a study of Anglo-Scottish literary relations in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It attempts to show how those poets who have frequently been called 'Scottish Chaucerians' (James I, Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas) drew upon English writing. In the best Middle Scots poetry we see an order of invention and technical mastery that is comparable with that of Chaucer's work, and this is sometimes accompanied by shrewd commentary on Chaucer's art. Evidence of such an independent and critical view of Chaucer is strikingly absent in contemporary English poetry, and the book accounts for some of the differences between Northern and Southern poetry in the later Middle Ages. Above all, this study reveals that the poetry of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century in Scotland is a rich and extremely varied body of literature, ranging from the carefully wrought philosophical comedy of 'The Kingis Quair' to the tragic grandeur of Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid', from the pointed satires and grotesqueries of Dunbar to Douglas' vigorous and sensitive translation of the Aeneid.

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9780521226653 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: This book is a study of Anglo-Scottish literary relations in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

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9780521135573 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 5, 2010), cover price $44.99

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Product Description: Originally published in 1986, this is an investigation of one particular aspect of what is usually called the Ages of Man. Human beings seem always to have divided up their lives into separate stages: this book argues that the medieval understanding of the age in the middle of man's life was very different from contemporary ideas...read more

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9780521325714 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $69.95

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9780521129824 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 4, 2010), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1986, this is an investigation of one particular aspect of what is usually called the Ages of Man.

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Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies a place of considerable importance in the history of English literature. Here, for the first time in English, are found many features of formal and thematic importance: they include rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The essays in this volume aim to provide both background information on and new assessments of the lyric. By treating Middle English lyrics chapter by chapter according to their kinds - poems dealing with love, with religious devotion, with moral, political and popular themes, and those associated with preaching - it provides the awareness of their characteristic cultural contexts and literary modalities necessary for an informed critical reading. Full account is taken of the scholarship upon which our knowledge of these lyrics rests, especially the outstanding contributions of the last few decades and such recent insights as those of gender criticism. Also included are detailed discussions of the valuable information afforded by the widely varying manuscript contexts in which Middle English lyrics survive and of the diverse issues involved in editing these texts. Separate chapters are devoted to the carol, which came to prominence in the fifteenth century, and to Middle Scots lyrics which, at the end of the Middle English lyric tradition, present some sophisticated productions of an entirely new order.BR> Contributors: Julia Boffey, Thomas G. Duncan, John Scattergood, Vincent Gillespie, Christiania Whitehead, Douglas Gray, Karl Reichl, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Alan J. Fletcher, Bernard O'Donoghue, Sarah Stanbury and Alasdair A. MacDonald.
By Thomas G. Duncan (editor)

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9781843840657 | Ds Brewer, January 1, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies a place of considerable importance in the history of English literature.

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9781843842132 | Reprint edition (Ds Brewer, April 17, 2010), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission...read more

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9781847062499, titled "Medieval English Romance in Context" | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 7, 2010, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts.

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9781847062505, titled "Medieval English Romance in Context" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 7, 2010, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts.

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Product Description: Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of the most popular of The Canterbury Tales. It is only 646 lines long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. There have been countless attempts to articulate the "real" meaning of the tale, but it has confounded the critics...read more

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9780268042356 | 1 edition (Univ of Notre Dame Pr, November 15, 2009), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of the most popular of The Canterbury Tales.

In Looking Westward, the author argues that a close study of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March is important to a fuller understanding of the Gawain-poet and his poem. Although the poem was likely composed in the northwest Midlands, little attention has been paid to the influences of the west: the Welsh alliterative poets and Henry Grosmont, the physical landscape of Wales and the March, and the political tensions that generated a historical beheading tradition, especially between 1265 and 1330, a tradition that gave way in the court of Edward III to the desire for a harmonious Camelot. This new literary, geographical, and historical perspective provides a better understanding of Sir Gawain and the virtues he embodies and acquires, and the relevance of these virtues in the turbulence of the poet’s contemporary world.

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9780874130492 | 1 edition (Univ of Delaware Pr, April 1, 2009), cover price $51.50
9781611491111 | Univ of Delaware Pr, March 31, 2009, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: In Looking Westward, the author argues that a close study of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March is important to a fuller understanding of the Gawain-poet and his poem.

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Product Description: Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral. Through a study of four major works in the Chaucerian tradition (The Canterbury Tales, John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes, and Lydgate's Fall of Princes), Scanlon redefines the exemplum as a 'narrative enactment of cultural authority'...read more

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9780521432108 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $78.99 | About this edition: Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral.

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9780521044257, titled "Narrative, Authority and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition" | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 5, 2007, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral.

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A series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers. It includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
By Geoffrey Chaucer, Andy Hawkins (editor) and Peter MacK (editor)

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9780198325482 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 15, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers.

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Product Description: The idea of kingship forms a recurrent theme in the poems of the so-called "Ricardians", John Gower, William Langland, the Gawain-poet and Chaucer - unsurprisingly, during a period of considerable turmoil. This book aims to widen understanding of these poets through an examination of the theme in Confessio Amantis, Piers Plowman and the works of the Gawain-poet and then setting these against the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the most well-known and studied of the Ricardians...read more

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9781843841746 | Ds Brewer, September 18, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The idea of kingship forms a recurrent theme in the poems of the so-called "Ricardians", John Gower, William Langland, the Gawain-poet and Chaucer - unsurprisingly, during a period of considerable turmoil.

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Product Description: Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way that no other verse form does...read more

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9781843841623 | Ds Brewer, September 18, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature?

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9781580441247 | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, February 28, 2008, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale and John Gower's Tale of Florent are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, the balladic versions - the Marriage of Sir Gawain and King Henry (and even Thomas of Erceldoune)-all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heterosexual relations, and about national identity...read more
By Susan Carter (editor)

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9781580441230 | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, June 30, 2007, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology.

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Product Description: In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry. Following Chaucer and others, Hoccleve and Lydgate brought to English verse a style and subject matter writing about their King, nation, and themselves, and their innovations influenced a continuous line of poets running through and beyond Wyatt...read more

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9780521863551 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2007), cover price $134.99

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9780521117067 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2009), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry.

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Product Description: Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian' authors and to a body of comment about his writings...read more
By Ruth Morse (editor) and Barry Windeatt (editor)

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9780521352475 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $72.99 | About this edition: Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian' authors and to a body of comment about his writings.

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9780521031493 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2006), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian' authors and to a body of comment about his writings.

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Product Description: This book studies medieval Scottish literature in light of theories on national identity, exploring how notions of ethnicity, language, class, kingship, history, folklore, and writing influence the ways Scots identify themselves. With chapters devoted to John Barbour's "Bruce", Sir Richard Holland's "Buke of the Howlat", and Blind Hary's "Wallace", Scottish identity is seen as a textual construction, the product of medieval writers' tales of Scottish heroes such as Bruce, Douglas, and Wallace...read more

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9780773456501 | Edwin Mellen Pr, October 4, 2006, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This book studies medieval Scottish literature in light of theories on national identity, exploring how notions of ethnicity, language, class, kingship, history, folklore, and writing influence the ways Scots identify themselves.

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Product Description: In Confession and Resistance, Katherine C. Little cautions that medieval selfhood should not be understood merely in terms of confessional practice. She points to the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay instruction that was generated in late medieval England around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy)...read more

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9780268033767 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In Confession and Resistance, Katherine C.

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Product Description: This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics--not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts...read more

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9780198187240 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 29, 2005, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics--not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts.

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Product Description: This book explores the late medieval literary legacy of early Christianity’s relationship to its Judaic origins. Catherine S. Cox demonstrates how the works of three canonical 14th-century authors—Dante, the Gawain-poet, and Chaucer—express conflicting aspects of Jewish and Christian religious identity...read more

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9780813028552 | Univ Pr of Florida, September 29, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book explores the late medieval literary legacy of early Christianity’s relationship to its Judaic origins.

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Product Description: This literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its center, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context...read more

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9780719053535 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 11, 2005, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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9780719071027 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 11, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'.

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Product Description: Dating back to 1774, and published here in a reprint of the 1871 London edition edited by W. Carew Hazlitt, this work is the classic history of English poetry, capturing great amounts of material unique to this work and built upon in other histories...read more

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9780838301876 | Haskell House Pub Ltd, June 1, 1970, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: A valuable survey of English poetry.

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9781410221438 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, March 30, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Dating back to 1774, and published here in a reprint of the 1871 London edition edited by W.
9781410221445 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, March 30, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Dating back to 1774, and published here in a reprint of the 1871 London edition edited by W.
9781410221469 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, March 30, 2005, cover price $22.99
9781410221452 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, March 30, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Dating back to 1774, and published here in a reprint of the 1871 London edition edited by W.

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Product Description: Mark Amodio’s book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the pens of private, literate authors...read more

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9780268020231 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 28, 2005, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Mark Amodio’s book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

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9780268020248 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, January 30, 2005, cover price $28.00

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9781403964328 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2004, cover price $115.00

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