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Relevant Call Numbers
If you enjoy browsing the shelves, many books on the Middle Ages fall within the following call number ranges (on the Third Floor of the library):
PE 101-458 Anglo-Saxon. Old English language
PE 501-693 Middle English language
PR 171-236 History of English literature in the Anglo-Saxon period (Beginnings through 1066)
PR 251-369 History of English literature in the Medieval period (Middle English) (1066-1500)
PR 1490-1799 English literature written during the Anglo-Saxon period
PR 1803-2165 English literature written during the Anglo-Norman period. (Early and Middle English)
Recommended Titles
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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
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Call Number: PR275.E77 J64 2013Publication Date: 2013Reveals that aesthetics are inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales. -
A History of Old English Literature
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Publication Date: 2013Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings, manuscripts, and legal and scientific texts. -
On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
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Call Number: PR203 .O5 2010, Third LevelPublication Date: 2010Contains essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos and reader response. Aims to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry. -
A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature
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Call Number: PR260 .C665 2009, Third LevelPublication Date: 2009Discusses the religious and historical background to Middle English literature, the circumstances and milieu in which it was produced, its linguistic features and the manuscripts in which it has been preserved. -
Later Medieval English Literature
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Call Number: PR291 .G73 2008, Third LevelPublication Date: 2008Provides an illuminating account of the literature written in English from Chaucer's death to the early sixteenth century. Includes a chronology, an introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry and drama. -
Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
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ISBN: 9781843844020Publication Date: 2015-04-16This book demonstrates how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. -
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
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Call Number: PR173 .C36 1991; ARC StorageISBN: 0521377943Publication Date: 1991-05-31The Companion introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600-1066. This book is aimed at students encountering Old English literature for the first time, who require clear guidance and orientation in an unfamiliar field.
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