King Pamela M. Medieval Literature, 1300-1500

Edinburgh University Press, 2011 — 256 p. — (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature). — ISBN10: 0748634606; ISBN13: 9780748634606.Medieval Literature, 1300-1500 offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Famous works, like The Canterbury Tales, are discussed alongside lesser-known poems, prose, and plays, in five thematically-organized chapters, accompanied by a helpful critical apparatus. Reflecting the proliferation of user-friendly editions, this book extends the range of Middle English writing for which there is accessible up-to-date critical support, enabling the student, the general reader, the course designer, and the aspirant specialist, to read widely and with enjoyment in the medieval period.Key FeaturesOffers succinct close-readings of well-known texts of the period.
Provides cultural-historical background to England in the Middle Ages.
Reflects on the construction of an English literary 'tradition'.
Cross-references literary texts against historical events and other art forms.The Ideal World.
Social Change.
Religion and Morality.
Complaint and Dissent.
The Literary World.