English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Contributors: Joan Krakover Hall (Translator)
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 29, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521311496
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English; British Isles; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Poetry; Tales, Medieval; English poetry; To 1500; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; History; History and criticism; Middle English, 1100-1500; Narration (Rhetoric); Narrative poetry, English
First sentence: Among the various genres into which we can classify Middle English narrative, religious narrative (that is, the kind of writing that is linked to religion by its subject, its ends, or its background) is not only among the oldest but, in its historical and sociological interest, also one of the richest.
Notes: Cambridge Paperback Library