Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle
English prose. The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and
authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and
genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the
subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary,
history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with
bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of
the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group;
Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich;
Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald
Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances,
saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historicalprose,
anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms
of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of
Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA
MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A.
WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT
GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN
COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD
BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
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