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Title:
Medieval literature : a very short introduction / Elaine Treharne.
Author:
Treharne, Elaine M., author.
Publication Information:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

©2015
Call Number:
PR255 .T74 2015
Abstract:
" ... provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints' lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the major periods in literary history."--Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199668496
Series:
Very short introductions ; 442

Very short introductions ; 442.
Physical Description:
141 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: endings and beginnings -- Literary origins -- Textual production and performance -- Literary spaces, literary identities -- Individual and community -- The mighty and the monstrous -- Love and longing -- Death and judgement -- Consolidating literary traditions -- Coda: print and the canon.
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