Medieval Literature

A Very Short Introduction

Elaine Treharne (Professor of English, Stanford University)

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English

Oxford University Press
08 October 2015

Series: Very Short Introductions

This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints' lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the major periods in literary history.

By: Elaine Treharne (Professor of English Stanford University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 174mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 128g
ISBN: 9780199668496
ISBN 10: 0199668493
Series: Very Short Introductions
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 08 October 2015
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Endings and Beginnings ; 2. Recording Culture, c. 450-1450 ; 3. Textual Production and Reception ; 4. Literary Audiences, Literary Identities ; 5. Individual and Community ; 6. The Mighty and the Monstrous ; 7. Love and Longing ; 8. Death and Judgement ; 9. Patronage and Ownership ; 10. Coda: Reimagining the Medieval ; TIMELINE ; TERMS AND GENRES ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX

Elaine Treharne is Professor of English at Stanford University and Visiting Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author or editor of more than two-dozen books and fifty articles, focusing principally on Old and Middle English Literature and Medieval manuscripts. Her current research projects concern the materiality of text and the importance of the senses in understanding early poetry and prose in its physical and cultural contexts. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society, a Trustee of the English Association, and a General Editor of Oxford Textual Perspectives, and Essays and Studies.