Periodization.
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, David.
Periodization.
- Published
- Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 253-66.
- Description
- Considers the value and possible necessity of periodization in history and literary history, focusing on particular difficulties in dealing with the use of "middle" in "Middle Ages" and "Middle English," and arguing that treatments of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate (especially Chaucer) by John Skelton and Stephen Hawes can be seen to disclaim continuity with English antecedents and claim it simultaneously—retrieving while repressing the past.
- Alternative Title
- A Handbook of Middle English Studies
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
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