Medieval literature : a very short introduction

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Medieval literature : a very short introduction

Title remainder

a very short introduction

Statement of responsibility

Elaine Treharne

Creator

• Treharne, Elaine M

Author

• Treharne, Elaine M

Subject

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

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Very short introductions, 442

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

820.9/001

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR255

LC item number

.T74 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Very short introductions

Series volume

442