The Presence of Medieval English Literature: Studies at the Interface of History, Author, and Text in a Selection of Middle English Literary Landmarks
- Author / Editor
- Fletcher, Alan J.
The Presence of Medieval English Literature: Studies at the Interface of History, Author, and Text in a Selection of Middle English Literary Landmarks
- Published
- Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.
- Physical Description
- ix, 294 pp.
- Description
- Series of essays focusing on medieval vernacular literature and "the presence of a text to its own age and the presence of that age within it." Special emphasis on Chaucer in Chapter 6, which examines CT, ABC, and LGW, to "restore the presence of the radical/heretical ferment in Chaucer's writing."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- ABC
- Legend of Good Women