Book and Verse : A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature. Illinois Medieval Studies
- Author / Editor
- Morey, James H.
Book and Verse : A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature. Illinois Medieval Studies
- Published
- Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xxii, 428 pp.
- Description
- Bibliographical guide to Middle English biblical literature, including manuscript and publication information, descriptions of the works, and identification of the biblical sources, covering some 110 individual works or sets of related works. Includes indexes of biblical citations and biblical names and topics, as well as a general index (eighteen Chaucer references). Four introductory chapters consider the medieval "idea" of the Bible, its official status and resistance to this status, the English vernacular, and literary concerns of genre, audience, and self-representation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference.