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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 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later
Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of
alliterative poetry in medieval English literature. The book
presents lesser known alliterative Middle English poems, which are
unmodernised and include explanatory footnotes designed to give
clarity to the text and enable critical response to the texts. The
book illustrates the great range and variety of alliterative verse,
both rhymed and unrhymed. The poems range from descriptions of
armies, bloody battles, dramatic storms and dreams of goddesses.
Whatever the subject, social and political satire, theological
controversy and moral admonition is always given a lively and
interesting setting. The book contains a succinct and incisive
introductory material and a carefully selected bibliography which
will encourage further reading.
Originally published in 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later
Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of
alliterative poetry in medieval English literature. The book
presents lesser known alliterative Middle English poems, which are
unmodernised and include explanatory footnotes designed to give
clarity to the text and enable critical response to the texts. The
book illustrates the great range and variety of alliterative verse,
both rhymed and unrhymed. The poems range from descriptions of
armies, bloody battles, dramatic storms and dreams of goddesses.
Whatever the subject, social and political satire, theological
controversy and moral admonition is always given a lively and
interesting setting. The book contains a succinct and incisive
introductory material and a carefully selected bibliography which
will encourage further reading.
The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries
tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the
poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of
medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description,
taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the
alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the
alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in Patience, the
dream-landscape in Pearl, and the mysterious tomb in St Erkenwald;
there are violent battle-scenes, descriptions of hunting and
hawking, beautiful meadows and terrifying mountains, purling
streams and wild rivers. Here is a seeming contradiction, or at
least a tension that needs to be explored. The descriptive passages
are digressions that interrupt the narrative; the story must pause
to take in a visual effect. In Description and Narrative in Middle
English Alliterative Poetry, Thorlac Turville-Petre explores this
relationship between description and narrative, and the
contribution of description to the narrative. Passages from all the
major alliterative poems are analysed, and translated as necessary,
so that the book may meet the needs of students as well as scholars
familiar with the language and the topics discussed.
A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of
one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue.
The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an
extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton
Antiphonal; theirs is the largest surviving library gathered by a
gentry family of the period, the product of a single acquisitive
burst, beginning around 1460 and mainly completed at about the time
of the Dissolution in 1540. The manuscripts remain unique because
of the very substantial core which survives more or less in situ,
together with a huge collection of family archives, at the
University of Nottingham, just a few miles from their original
home. This book focuses upon the ten manuscripts now in the
Wollaton Library Collection as well asthe famous Antiphonal. Essays
explore the history of the library and the Willoughby family, the
books of Sir Thomas Chaworth, the art and function of the
Antiphonal, the works of pastoral instruction, the decoration of
the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated
manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the
conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full
catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of
manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as
Tokyo and New York. Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph
Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones,
Thorlac Turville-Petre.
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Pearl
Thorlac Turville-Petre
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R838
Discovery Miles 8 380
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in
which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the
death of his baby daughter. He meets her, now transformed into a
beautiful young lady, in a dream, where she attempts to bring him
to understand the place of death in the divine plan, and where he
is granted a sight of the heavenly Jerusalem. Pearl is celebrated
as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most
challenging of the four works by the anonymous author of Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight. This new critical edition is designed to
offer the maximum support for the reader of the poem. The text is
accompanied by a close translation, and each of the twenty sections
of the poem is provided with an introductory headnote as well as a
running commentary. A general introduction supplies the necessary
background information, on manuscript and authorship, form and
structure, sources and influences, style, vocabulary and
verse-form. The bibliography selects the most significant of the
extensive critical studies. Written for both the specialist and the
general reader, this book is an essential guide to this profound
and complex poem. Designed as a replacement for E. V. Gordon’s
standard edition of 1953 this is the only edition of Pearl to be
accompanied by a literal translation and a full literary commentary
and is the fruit of the author's 40 years of teaching medieval
literature.
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Pearl (Hardcover)
Thorlac Turville-Petre
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R3,465
Discovery Miles 34 650
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in
which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the
death of his baby daughter. He meets her, now transformed into a
beautiful young lady, in a dream, where she attempts to bring him
to understand the place of death in the divine plan, and where he
is granted a sight of the heavenly Jerusalem. Pearl is celebrated
as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most
challenging of the four works by the anonymous author of Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight. This new critical edition is designed to
offer the maximum support for the reader of the poem. The text is
accompanied by a close translation, and each of the twenty sections
of the poem is provided with an introductory headnote as well as a
running commentary. A general introduction supplies the necessary
background information, on manuscript and authorship, form and
structure, sources and influences, style, vocabulary and
verse-form. The bibliography selects the most significant of the
extensive critical studies. Written for both the specialist and the
general reader, this book is an essential guide to this profound
and complex poem. Designed as a replacement for E. V. Gordon's
standard edition of 1953 this is the only edition of Pearl to be
accompanied by a literal translation and a full literary commentary
and is the fruit of the author's 40 years of teaching medieval
literature.
The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries
tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the
poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of
medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description,
taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the
alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the
alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in Patience, the
dream-landscape in Pearl, and the mysterious tomb in St Erkenwald;
there are violent battle-scenes, descriptions of hunting and
hawking, beautiful meadows and terrifying mountains, purling
streams and wild rivers. Here is a seeming contradiction, or at
least a tension that needs to be explored. The descriptive passages
are digressions that interrupt the narrative; the story must pause
to take in a visual effect. In Description and Narrative in Middle
English Alliterative Poetry, Thorlac Turville-Petre explores this
relationship between description and narrative, and the
contribution of description to the narrative. Passages from all the
major alliterative poems are analysed, and translated as necessary,
so that the book may meet the needs of students as well as scholars
familiar with the language and the topics discussed.
Informative study of the 14th-century revival of alliterative
poetry which culminated in the major masterpieces of Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight, Pearl and Piers Plowman. The revival of
alliterative poetry in the fourteenth century, which culminated in
the major masterpieces of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl
and Piers Plowman, poses many problems for the historians of
literature. As a result, the poems have tended to be studied in
isolation, and their poetic context and use of an established
tradition have been largely ignored. This book assesses the
alliterative revival as a poetic movement, and restores the poems
to their literary context. In particular, it offers an evaluation
of the obscure origins of the revival, and on the type of audience
for whom the poems were intended.
This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims
to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the
ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can
be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining
the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta
families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to
reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow
and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as
corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version
Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the
B-text tradition.
This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims
to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the
ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can
be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining
the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta
families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to
reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow
and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as
corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version
Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the
B-text tradition.
England the Nation is the first book to pay detailed attention to
the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in
its own right. Thorlac Turville-Petre surveys the wide range of
writings by the generation before Chaucer, and explores how English
writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the
Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation,
and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and
language. At the centre of Turville-Petre's work is a study of the
construction of national identity that takes place in the histories
written in English. The contribution of romances and saints' lives
to an awareness of the nation's past are also considered, as in the
questions of how writers were able to reconcile their sense of
regional identity with commitment to the nation. A final chapter
explores the interrelationship between England's three languages -
Latin, French, and English - at a time when English was attaining
the status of the national language, Middle English quotations are
glossed or translated into modern English throughout. England the
Nation takes the current debate on nationalism into a new area, and
will be of interest to anyone studying medieval English literature
and history, as well as the development of nationalism, and the
rise of English as a national language.
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