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Author:

Treharne, Elaine M., author.

Title:

Medieval literature : a very short introduction / Elaine Treharne.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

141 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-133) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: endings and beginnings -- Literary origins --Textual production and performance -- Literary spaces, literary identities -- Individual and community -- The mighty and the monstrous -- Love and longing -- Death and judgement -- Consolidating literary traditions -- Coda: print and the canon.

Summary:

"... provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints' lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the major periods in literary history."--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Very short introductions ; 442.

ISBN:

0199668493
9780199668496

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907657650

LCCN:

2015935245

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)