London Literature, 1300-1380Cambridge University Press, 2005 M06 8 - 359 páginas English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding. Its focus, however, was still strongly local, not national. This study examines in detail the literary production from the capital before, during, and after the time of the Black Death. In this major contribution to the field, Ralph Hanna charts the development and the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing. He uncovers the interactions between texts and authors across a range of languages and genres: not just Middle English, but Anglo-Norman and Latin; not just romance, but also law, history, and biblical commentary. Hanna emphasises the uneasy boundaries legal thought and discourse shared with historical and 'romance' thinking, and shows how the technique of romance, Latin writing associated with administrative culture, and biblical interests underwrote the great pre-Chaucerian London poem, William Langland's Piers Plowman. |
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Ancrene Riwle Andrew Horn Anglo-Norman Apoc Apocalypse appears associated Auchinleck Manuscript Auchinleck romances audience Beves Beves's biblical Bodleian Library Booklet British Library Cambridge central century Chandos Herald chapter Chaucer Chronicle cited City civic clerical commentary context copies culture discussion early London Edward Edward III Edwardian England example fols forto fourteenth fourteenth-century French further Gretham's guild Guy of Warwick haue Horn Horn's identify includes instruction John king king's labour LALME Langland language later Latin literary Lollard magnatial manuscript materials Medieval Meed Middle English Milemete Mirror monastic narrative nou3th oiper Oxford passus Pepys Riwle perhaps Piers Plowman Piers's poem poem's priest Prince production prologue prose provides Psalter reading reviser Richard Robert royal scribe sermon simply social South English Legendary Statutes surviving synne textual Thedmar's translation Type typically vernacular volume Westminster William writing Wycliffite þat
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