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Medieval Latin and Middle English literature : essays in honour of Jill Mann /

"Jill Mann's writing, teaching, and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of these fields (...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mann, Jill (honouree.), Cannon, Christopher (Editor ), Nolan, Maura (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The man of law's tale and crusade / Siobhain Bly Calkin
  • The language group of the Canterbury tales / Christopher Cannon
  • "Save man allone" : human exceptionality in Piers Plowman and the exemplarist tradition / Rebecca Davis
  • The land of Cocaygne : three notes on the Latin background / Peter Dronke
  • The Canterbury tales and Gamelyn / A.S.G. Edwards
  • The cheerful science : Nicholas Oresme, home economics, and literary dissemination / Elizabeth B. Edwards
  • The poetics of catastrophe : Ovidian allusion in Gower's Vox clamantis / Maura Nolan
  • Preaching with the hands : Carthusian book production and the Speculum devotorum / Paul J. Patterson
  • The necessity of difference : the speech of peace and the doctrine of contraries in Langland's Piers Plowman / Derek Pearsall
  • Chaucer's Complaint unto pity and the insights of allegory / Ad Putter
  • Amor in claustro / Paul Gerhard Schmidt
  • "And that was litel nede" : poetry's need in Robert Henryson's Fables and Testament of Cresseid / James Simpson
  • The art of swooning in Middle English / Barry Windeatt
  • The theory of passionate song / Nicolette Zeeman.