Research Catalog

Title

Recasting the past : the Middle Ages in young adult literature / Rebecca Barnhouse.

Author

Barnhouse, Rebecca

Publication

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2000.

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Details

Description

xvii, 103 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"The purpose of this book is to provide teachers, librarians, and scholars of adolescent literature with a discussion of fiction set in the Middle Ages"--P. [2] of cover.

Series Statement

Young adult literature series

Uniform Title

Young adult literature series (Portsmouth, N.H.)

Alternative Title

Middle Ages in young adult literature

Subject

• Young adult fiction, American > History and criticism
• Middle Ages in literature
• Young adult fiction, English > History and criticism
• Young adults > Books and reading > English-speaking countries
• Young adult fiction, American > Bibliography
• Young adult fiction, English > Bibliography
• Young adults > Books and reading
• Young adult fiction, American
• Young adult fiction, English
• Jugendliteratur
• Mittelalter
• Mittelalter Motiv
• English-speaking countries
• USA
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• bibliographies.
• Bibliographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-99) and index.

Contents

Manuscripts and medicine : portrayals of books, literacy, and knowledge -- Fidelity to the infidel : religion and religious diversity -- Tales and their tellers : medieval literature in modern dress -- Saxons and Normans -- Saints and sinners : historical figures fictionalized -- Of commoners and kings : medievalism in fantasy novels -- Into the classroom.

ISBN

• 0867094702
• 9780867094701

LCCN

00266803

OCLC

• ocm43799194
• 43799194
• SCSB-1126246

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library