Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook

Author / Editor
Goldie, Matthew Boyd.

Title
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.