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The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook
introduces students to the wide range of literature written in
England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview
of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the
book goes on to examine key middle English texts -- including a new
extract from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love -- with
helpful notes to direct students to key points within the text.
Keeping in mind adopter feedback, this new edition includes a new
model translation section with a student workbook and model
exercise for classroom use. This new chapter will include sections
on 'false friend' words, untranslatable idioms and notes on
translating both poetry and prose. The text and references will be
fully updated throughout and a foreword dedicated to the late J. A.
Burrow will be included.
Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle
English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can
stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem's conventions and
purposes in a critical analysis and provides a useful and
insightful introduction to 'Sir Gawain'. It will be of interest to
students and academics studying the poem of Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight.
Gestures and looks played an even more important role in public and private exchanges of medieval society, than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this compelling study, medievalist Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a range of narrative texts, including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the prose Lancelot, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, and Dante's Commedia.
Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle
English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can
stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem's conventions and
purposes in a critical analysis and provides a useful and
insightful introduction to 'Sir Gawain'. It will be of interest to
students and academics studying the poem of Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight.
Authors of the Middle Ages is a new series designed for research
and reference. Each part, by an expert on the subject, gives an
account of the facts known about a particular Author's life and
immediate historical context, together with a review of subsequent
scholarship. This is supported by citation of all known
contemporary references; a dated and classified list of manuscripts
and editions; a bibliography of secondary sources; and appendices
listing or printing the key literary and documentary sources. The
aim is to combine, in one compact work, a bibliography of a
medieval author with all the information needed for further
research. Each will be available individually, or in a collection
with three other contemporary Authors. Authors of the Middle Ages
is divided into two sub-series, English Writers of the Late Middle
Ages and historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West.
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes
and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts
of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical rhetoricians
and later by writers on poetry. J. A. Burrow's study spans over two
thousand years, from Pindar to Christopher Logue, but its main
concern is with the English poetry of the Middle Ages, a period
when praise poetry flourished. He argues that the 'decline of
praise' in English literature since the seventeenth century, which
has meant that modern readers and critics find it hard to
appreciate this kind of poetry. This erudite but accessible account
by a leading scholar of medieval literature shows why the poetry of
praise was once so popular, and why it is still worth reading
today.
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes
and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts
of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical rhetoricians
and later by writers on poetry. J. A. Burrow's study spans over two
thousand years, from Pindar to Christopher Logue, but its main
concern is with the English poetry of the Middle Ages, a period
when praise poetry flourished. He argues that the 'decline of
praise' in English literature since the seventeenth century, which
has meant that modern readers and critics find it hard to
appreciate this kind of poetry. This erudite but accessible account
by a leading scholar of medieval literature shows why the poetry of
praise was once so popular, and why it is still worth reading
today.
In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even
more important part in public and private exchanges than they do
today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies
of homage and fealty. In this, the first study of its kind in
English, John Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication
in a wide range of narrative texts, including Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's
Morte D'arthur, the romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Prose
Lancelot, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, and Dante's Commedia. Burrow
argues that since non-verbal signs are in general less subject to
change than words, many of the behaviours recorded in these texts,
such as pointing and amorous gazing, are familiar in themselves;
yet many prove easy to misread, either because they are no longer
common, like bowing, or because their use has changed, like
winking.
This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition,
introduces students to the wide range of literature written in
England between 1150 and 1400.
New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English
textbook.
Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on
pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional
dialects.
Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and
Criseyde'.
Bibliographic references have been updated throughout.
Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
This book treats separately all four poems: Pearl, Cleanness,
Patience and Sir Gawain. There are also chapters on: the history of
the poems and their rediscovery; alliterative verse; and what
little is known about the author. The main emphasis falls on
interpretation, and on such explanations as a modern reader may
require. All quotations cited from the poems are translated as
well.
A profoundly organic view of humanity in nature, the concept of
"ages of man" made itself felt in nearly all forms of medieval
discourse--sermons, Bible commentaries, moral and political
treatises, encyclopedias and lexicons, medical and astrological
handbooks, didactic and courtly poems, and
even stained glass windows. J.A. Burrow's analysis ranges over the
many manifestations of this idea, and considers the ways in which
such ideas of natural order entered into medieval writers'
assessment of human nature.
A profoundly organic view of humanity in nature, the concept of
"ages of man" made itself felt in nearly all forms of medieval
discourse--sermons, Bible commentaries, moral and political
treatises, encyclopedias and lexicons, medical and astrological
handbooks, didactic and courtly poems, and
even stained glass windows. J.A. Burrow's analysis ranges over the
many manifestations of this idea, and considers the ways in which
such ideas of natural order entered into medieval writers'
assessment of human nature.
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