Language and Literature
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
Language and Literature
- Published
- Nigel Saul, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 245-76.
- Description
- Surveys English language and literature from the Anglo-Saxon invasions to Thomas Malory, briefly discussing Chaucer as a court poet and as the one who brought "England fully into the stream of contemporary French and Italian poetry," making English "part of the whole medieval Latin and vernacular tradition."
- Contributor
- Saul, Nigel,ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.