A Book of Middle English
Third Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 16. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-4051-1709-8 (ISBN)
Description
This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400.
* New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook.
* Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects.
* Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'.
* Bibliographic references have been updated throughout.
* Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
* New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook.
* Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects.
* Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'.
* Bibliographic references have been updated throughout.
* Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
Reviews / Votes
"Classroom experience with this authoritative and accessible introduction to Middle English confirms that this is now our best available vademecum to the subject. The appearance of a third edition of Burrow and Turville-Petre's Book of Middle English is good news to teachers and students of Middle English." Fred Robinson, Yale University"Currently the most lucid and illuminating introduction to the language of Middle English, with an excellent selection of literary texts chosen and annotated to suggest the interest, sophistication, and variety of Middle English writing from the Peterborough Chronicle through the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries." Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
More details
Edition
3. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
beginning students of medieval English literature and language, general readers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Thickness: 3.3 cm
Weight
656 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-1709-8 (9781405117098)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
J.A. Burrow is Emeritus Professor at Bristol University. His many publications include Medieval Writers and their Work (1982) and Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative (2002).
Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include England the Nation (1996) and The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.19 (CD-ROM, 2000).
Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include England the Nation (1996) and The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.19 (CD-ROM, 2000).
Content
List of illustrations.
Preface to the Third Edition.
Abbreviations.
Part One.
1 Introducing Middle English.
2 Pronouncing Middle English.
3 Vocabulary.
4 Inflexions.
5 Syntax.
6 Metre.
7 From Manuscript to Printed Text.
8 Select Bibliography.
Part Two: Prose and Verse Texts.
Note on Treatment of Texts.
1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137.
2 The Owl and the Nightingale.
3 LaÇamon: Brut.
4 Ancrene Wisse.
5 Sir Orfeo.
6 The Cloud of Unknowing.
7 William Langland: Piers Plowman.
8 Patience.
9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
10 Pearl.
11 St Erkenwald.
12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk.
13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis.
14 Lyrics.
15 The York Play of the Crucifixion.
16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls.
17 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus.
18 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.
Textual Notes.
Glossary
Preface to the Third Edition.
Abbreviations.
Part One.
1 Introducing Middle English.
2 Pronouncing Middle English.
3 Vocabulary.
4 Inflexions.
5 Syntax.
6 Metre.
7 From Manuscript to Printed Text.
8 Select Bibliography.
Part Two: Prose and Verse Texts.
Note on Treatment of Texts.
1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137.
2 The Owl and the Nightingale.
3 LaÇamon: Brut.
4 Ancrene Wisse.
5 Sir Orfeo.
6 The Cloud of Unknowing.
7 William Langland: Piers Plowman.
8 Patience.
9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
10 Pearl.
11 St Erkenwald.
12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk.
13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis.
14 Lyrics.
15 The York Play of the Crucifixion.
16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls.
17 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus.
18 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.
Textual Notes.
Glossary