Contributor
Cooper, Helen, 1947- editor.
ImprintOxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Descriptionxvii, 523 pages ; 26 cm.
Note:Introduction / Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards -- Part I. Contexts -- Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years' War / Laura Ashe -- Poetic Sites / Ralph Hanna -- Manuscripts: The Textual Record of Middle English Poetry / Simon Horobin -- Part II. Literary Culture -- The Poetic Field, I: Old and Middle English Language and Poetry / Richard Dance -- The Poetic Field, II: Anglo-Latin / Siān Echard -- The Poetic Field, III: Anglo-French / Keith Busby -- The Poetic Field, IV: Welsh / Victoria Flood -- Verse Forms / Ad Putter -- Poetic and Literary Theory / Andrew Galloway --Part III. 'Matere' -- Poetry and National History / Caroline D. Eckhardt -- Poetry in its Age: Satire and Complaint / Craig E. Bertolet -- Doctrine and Learning / Stephen M. Yeager -- Poetry and the Bible / Jacqueline Tasioulas -- Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography / Karen A. Winstead -- Part IV. Genre Poetics -- Narrative on the Margins: Tales and Fabliaux / Christopher Cannon -- Religious and Didactic Lyrics / Denis Renevey -- Secular Lyrics / Susanna Fein -- Non-Cycle Romances of Love / Rhiannon Purdie -- Romances of the Ancient World / Wolfram R. Keller -- The Matter of Britain / Elizabeth Archibald -- Crusade Romances and the Matter of France / Marcel Elias -- The 'Matter of England' / Andrew James Johnston -- Part V. The Ricardian Poets -- Piers Plowman / Nicolette Zeeman -- The Gawain-Poet / Helen Cooper -- Chaucer's Courtly Poetry / David Lawton -- The Canterbury Tales / Barry Windeatt -- John Gower / R. F. Yeager -- The Reception of the Middle English Poetic Tradition / Julia Boffey.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-516) and index.
Note:This volume reflects the multiplicity of English poetry between 1100 and 1400. The chapters focus on the historical, linguistic, and poetic transitions of the period, including major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression.
