From the Norman Conquest to the Black Death: An Anthology of Writings from England - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198123531 ISBN 13: 9780198123538

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

It is often supposed that there is between the 'Old English' period that produced Beowulf and the 'Middle English' period that produced Chaucer a kind of literary 'gap' in which little or nothing happened. In fact a very large quantity of fascinating work, mainly in Latin or Anglo-Norman, but also in 'Early Middle English', appeared. This anthology makes available to the modern reader a range of texts from this period, in translation or helpfully glossed form, providing something of the rich treasure trove of literature that was produced between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. The diversity of genres included here is astonishing - chronicle, history, legends, plays, lyrics, debates, romances, and stories of all shapes and kinds. This anthology will prove to be indispensable reading for the study of Medieval English literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkien Professor at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include Later Medieval English Literature, The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose, Ihe Oxford Companion to ChaucerR, and the Peguin edition of The Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

Review:

"Delightful...From the Norman Conquest to the Black Death is thoroughgoing, illuminating, and eminently readable...A useful volume that should find a home in the libraries of scholars of England and its literature, medieval literature more broadly, and the universities which hope to support them." --Comitatus

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0198123531
• ISBN 13: 9780198123538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 425
• Editor: Gray Douglas