num_pages: 1070
description: This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature in nearly a century. Thirty-three contributors provide information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception. The volume also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
language: English
title: The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
titlecomplete: The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
genres: Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 12
series: The New Cambridge History of English Literature
publisher: Cambridge University Press