Research Catalog

Title

Old and Middle English literature / edited by Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell.

Publication

Detroit : Gale Research, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Helterman, Jeffrey.
• Mitchell, Jerome.

Description

xi, 550 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 146

Uniform Title

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 146.

Subjects

• Authors, English > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Biography > Dictionaries
• English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Dictionaries
• English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
• English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
• English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Dictionaries
• Authors, English > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Biography > Dictionaries

Note

• "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-483) and index.

Contents

• Old English Literature: An Introduction / Jonathan Evans -- AElfric (circa 955-circa 1010) / Eugene Green -- King Alfred (849-899) / Allen J. Frantzen -- Bede (circa 673-735) / Arthur G. Holder -- Caedmon (flourished 658-680) and The Caedmon School (circa 660-899) / Joy L. Cafiero -- Cynewulf (circa 770-840) / Alexandra Hennessey Olsen -- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (circa 890-1154) / Jolyon Helterman -- The Battle of Maldon (circa 1000) / Marie Nelson -- Beowulf (circa 900-1000 or 790-825) / Jeffrey Helterman -- The Blickling Homilies (circa 971) / Margaret Pyne Monteverde -- The Germanic Epic and Old English Heroic Poetry: Widsith, Waldere, and The Fight at Finnsburg / Richard David Wissolik -- Judith (circa 930) / Katherine E. Krohn -- The Old English Riddles (eighth-tenth centuries) / Andrew Welsh -- The Wanderer and The Seafarer (circa 970) / Sarah Lynn Higley -- Middle English Literature: An Introduction / William Provost --
• John Barbour (circa 1316-1395) / Phoebe A. Mainster -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) / Jeffrey Helterman -- William Dunbar (circa 1460-circa 1522) / Deanna Delmar Evans -- The Gawain-Poet (flourished circa 1350-1400) / William McColly -- Geoffrey of Monmouth (circa 1100-1155) / Maureen Fries -- John Gower (circa 1330-1408) / Russell A. Peck -- Robert Henryson (1420s or 1430s-circa 1505) / Edwin D. Craun -- Walter Hilton (died 1396) / Toni J. Morris -- Thomas Hoccleve (circa 1368-circa 1437) / Douglas J. McMillan -- Julian of Norwich (1342-circa 1420) / Elizabeth Psakis Armstrong -- Margery Kempe (circa 1373-1438) / Denise L. Despres -- William Langland (circa 1330-circa 1400) / Rosanne Gasse -- Lazamon (flourished circa 1200) / Elizabeth J. Bryan -- John Lydgate (circa 1370-1450) / Jerome Mitchell and Judith Davis Shaw -- Sir Thomas Malory (circa 1400-1410 - 1471) / Jeffrey Helterman -- Sir John Mandeville (mid fourteenth century) / Iain Higgins --
• Robert Mannyng (flourished 1303-1338) / Kathleen Gaines McCarty -- Dan Michel of Northgate (circa 1265-circa 1340) / John Felicien Lorio, Jr. -- John Mirk (died after 1414?) / Joel Fredell -- Richard Rolle (circa 1290-1300 - 1349) / William F. Pollard -- John Trevisa (circa 1342-circa 1402) / Anthony S. G. Edwards -- Thomas Usk (died 1388) / John C. Hirsh -- Robert ("Maistre") Wace (circa 1100-circa 1175) / Daniel F. Pigg -- John Wyclif (circa 1335-1384) / Thomas A. Goodman -- The Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur (circa 1350-1400) / R. A. Shoaf -- Ancrene Riwle (circa 1200-1225) / Nancy Coiner -- The Breton Lays (1300-early fifteenth century) / Timothy D. O'Brien -- The Castle of Perseverance (circa 1400-1425) / Carol Falkenstine -- The Chester Plays (circa 1505-1532; revisions until 1575) / Shearle Furnish -- Cursor Mundi (circa 1300) / Sally C. Hoople -- The Matter of England (1240-1400) / Sharon Stevenson --
• The Matter of Rome (early twelfth-late fifteenth century) / George R. Keiser -- The Middle English Lyric (twelfth-fifteenth century) / Edmund Reiss -- Morality Plays: Mankind (circa 1450-1500) and Everyman (circa 1500) / Zacharias P. Thundy -- N-Town Plays (circa 1468-early sixteenth century) / Theresa Coletti -- The Owl and the Nightingale (circa 1189-1199) / Laurel Boone -- The Paston Letters (1422-1509) / Anthony J. Ouellette -- The South English Legendary (circa thirteenth-fifteenth centuries) / Katherine G. McMahon -- The Towneley Plays (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) / Clifford Davidson -- The York Cycle (circa 1376-circa 1569) / Perry T. Patterson -- The English Language: 410 to 1500 / Bruce L. Pearson -- The Celtic Background to Medieval English Literature / Elissa R. Henken -- Anglo-Norman Literature in the Development of Middle English Literature / Jane Dick Zatta.

ISBN

0810357070 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94022381

OCLC

ocm30783348

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries