Later Medieval English Prose.
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, William, ed.
Later Medieval English Prose.
- Published
- New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts; London: Peter Owen, 1963.
- Physical Description
- 336 pp.
- Description
- Anthologizes some sixty modernized examples and excerpts from late-medieval English prose writing, arranged by topic, form, or genre (e.g., Historians, Mystics, Religious Controversialists, etc.), with a brief introduction to each section. Includes a selection from Bo (pp. 191-200; Bo 5pr2-4) under "Moral Philosophers" and under "Literary Critics," Ret (pp. 233-34) and William Caxton's "Proem to the 'Canterbury Tales,' 1484" (pp. 234-36).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Boece
Chaucer's Retraction