the cambridge history of medieval english literature

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1、thecambridgehistoryofMEDIEVALENGLISHLITERATUREThisisthefirstfull-scalehistoryofmedievalEnglishliteraturefornearlyacentury.Thirty-threedistinguishedcontributorso◊eracollaborativeaccountofliteraturecomposedortransmittedinEngland,Wales,IrelandandScotlandbetweentheNormanConquestandthedeathofHe

2、nryVIII.Thevolumehasfivesections:‘AftertheNormanConquest’,‘WritingintheBritishIsles’,‘InstitutionalProductions’,‘AftertheBlackDeath’and‘BeforetheReformation’.Itprovidesinformationonavastrangeofliter-arytextsandtheconditionsoftheirproductionandreception,whichwillservebothspecialistsandgener

3、alreaders,andalsocontainsachronology,fullbibliographyandadetailedindex.Thisbooko◊ersthemostextensiveandvibrantaccountavailableofthemedievalliteraturessodrasticallyreconfiguredinTudorEngland.ItwillthusproveessentialreadingforscholarsoftheRenaissanceaswellasmedievalists,forhistoriansaswellas

4、literaryspecialists.DavidWallaceistheJudithRodinProfessorofEnglishLiteratureattheUniversityofPennsylvania.HisbooksincludeChaucerianPolity:AbsolutistLineagesandAssociationalFormsinEnglandandItaly(StanfordUniversityPress,1997);GiovanniBoccaccio,Decameron(CambridgeUniversityPress,1991);Chauc

5、erandtheEarlyWritingsofBoccaccio(D.S.Brewer,1985);BodiesandDisciplines:IntersectionsofLiteratureandHistoryinFifteenth-CenturyEngland(ed.withBarbaraA.Hanawalt;UniversityofMinnesotaPress,1996).CambridgeHistoriesOnline©CambridgeUniversityPress,2008CambridgeHistoriesOnline©CambridgeUniversity

6、Press,2008thenewcambridgehistoryofENGLISHLITERATURETheNewCambridgeHistoryofEnglishLiteratureisaprogrammeofref-erenceworksdesignedtoo◊erabroadsynthesisandcontextualsurveyofthehistoryofEnglishliteraturethroughthemajorperiodsofitsdevelop-ment.Theorganisationofeachvolumereflectstheparticularch

7、aracteris-ticsoftheperiodcovered,withinageneralcommitmenttoprovidinganaccessiblenarrativehistorythroughalinkedsequenceofessaysbyinter-nationallyrenownedscholars.TheHistoryisdesignedtoaccommodatetherangeofinsightsandfreshperspectivesbroughtbynewapproachestothesubject