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English Poetry Before Chaucer
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Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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ISBN10: 0859896331
ISBN13: 9780859896337
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 2 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780859896337
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 2 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of
the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England.
the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England.
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