Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook
- Author / Editor
- Goldie, Matthew Boyd.
Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook
- Published
- Oxford : Blackwell, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xxxviii, 301 pp. : 13 b&w figs.
- Description
- Collects forty-five documents and images as backgrounds to fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature; arranged under seven headings and keyed (by chart) to a variety of canonical Middle English literary texts. All of the selected texts are Middle English or Middle English translations from Latin or French; most are excerpted. Topics include social institutions, conflict, sexuality, labor, spectacle, etc. An introduction accompanies each selection, and the volume includes a Middle English glossary, table of dates, bibliography, and index. Designed for classroom use.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.