Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century

Author / Editor
Cooper, Lisa H., and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds.

Title
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century

Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Physical Description
223 pp.

Series
The New Middle Ages.

Description
Eight essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, an afterword by D. Vance Smith, and an index. The essays consider Lydgate's poetry in relation to "the role of material goods and the material world in the formation of late-medieval identity." References to Chaucer appear throughout. For two essays that include sustained attention to Chaucer's works, search for Lydgate Matters under Alternative Title.

Contributor
Denny-Brown, Andrea, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism