Biblical paradigms in medieval English literature
Subtitle: from Caedmon to Malory
By: Lawrence Besserman
Series: Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780415897945
Subjects: English literature; Bible; Secularism in literature; History and criticism; Influence; Medieval Literature; Holy, The, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biblical paradigms in Old English verse: Caedmon's Hymn, Exodus, and Beowulf; title: Sacred and secular in the Middle English lyric: 'Maiden in the moor lay' and 'I sing of a maiden'; title: Sacred and secular in the world of romance: the idea of the Green Knight; title: Biblical analogies and the language of love in Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde; title: Chivalry and the scandal of the sacred in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.