Language and Literature

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
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.