Readings in Medieval Poetry

Author / Editor
Spearing, A. C.

Title
Readings in Medieval Poetry

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Description
By eclectic approaches that borrow techniques from "modern literary theory, film analysis, sociolinguistics, and social anthropology" and that use historical views of medieval ideas and practice, Spearing illuminates a number of medieval poems, including BD, HF, and TC. Early chapters treat "elaborated and restricted codes," "early medieval narrative style," and "interpreting a medieval romance."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess.
House of Fame.
Troilus and Criseyde.