THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

Title :  THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE 

ISBN :  9780521444200

Year :  1999

No.of.Pages :  1066

Author :  David Wallace

Binding :  Paperback

Publisher :  Cambridge University Press

Description :

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature in nearly a century. Thirty-three contributors provide information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception. The volume also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.