A Book of Middle English

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Wiley, 15 déc. 2011 - 432 pages
This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition,introduces students to the wide range of literature written inEngland between 1150 and 1400.

  • New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential MiddleEnglish textbook.
  • Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance onpronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regionaldialects.
  • Now includes extracts from ‘Pearl’ andChaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’.
  • Bibliographic references have been updated throughout.
  • Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.

À propos de l'auteur (2011)

J. A. Burrow is Emeritus Professor at Bristol University. His many publications include Medieval Writers and their Work (1982) and Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative (2002).

Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include England the Nation (1996) and The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.19 (CD Rom, 2000).

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