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A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. This
collection of essays makes available a wide range of new
scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues
of "Chaucerian representation" and "Chaucerian poetics", arguing
for the multiplicity and complexityof what Chaucer "represents" and
for the importance of his dual Anglo-French background in enabling
him to articulate that complexity. Chaucer's use of Ovidian and
Ciceronian sources and ideas is examined, and his pursuit of
simplicity and suspicion of "delicacy"; the potent issues of
sexuality and spirituality, and money and death (with Chaucer's own
ending and his thoughts on last things) complete the collection.
Contributors: DEREK BREWER, HELEN COOPER, PAUL DOWER, JOHN V.
FLEMING, JOHN HILL, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, CELIA LEWIS, R. BARTON PALMER,
WILLIAM PROVOST, JOHN PLUMMER, WILLIAM ROGERS.
Title: A Mayoral Year. An account of the year of office of C. J.
Roberts, Mayor of Sydney, New South Wales, 1879. Compiled by J.
Plummer.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Plummer, John;
Roberts, Charles James; 1885. 279 p.; 8 . 10492.ee.2.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
When the magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was
celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty
years since its first publication, it is made available once again.
Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, The Hours
of Catherine of Cleves is a fiteenth century illuminated manuscript
containing a series of some of the most beautiful illustrations of
the bible ever made. Many of the great scenes form the Old
Testament and many more from the New Testament are included,
besides the Stations of the Cross and portraits of the saints. The
work of an unidentified Dutch master painter, the manuscript was
made for Catherine of Cleves on the occasion of her marriage to the
Duke of Guelders. All the 157 surviving miniatures are reproduced
to actual size and in exquisite colour with gold, together with
three samples of pages containing the Latin prayers. Page after
page reveals the elaborate program and rich illumination of the
original. The progression from beginning to end shows an artist
increasing in skill, relying in his earlier work on tradition and
later emerging as an independent artist of bold, clear colours,
dynamic brushwork and lively imagination. He stands as one of the
supreme painters of fifteenth century Northern Europe. Each page is
accompanied by a descriptive and explanatory commentary by John
Plummer. His introduction discusses the development of the Book of
Hours as a liturgical form in general, and the history of the
Cleves Hours specifically, and describes the place it holds in the
history of Northern Painting.
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