Arthurian Studies from Blackwell

Some bits and pieces of interest:

A Companion to Medieval Poetry
Edited by Corinne Saunders
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5963-0
Hardcover
704 pages
April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
US $209.95

Part II Middle English Poetry.

Contexts.

9 The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century (Conor McCarthy).

10 Middle English Language and Poetry (Simon Horobin).

11 Middle English Manuscripts and Readers (Ralph Hanna).

Genres and Modes.

12 Legendary History and Chronicle: La3amon’s Brut and the Chronicle Tradition (Lucy Perry).

16 Popular Romance (Nancy Mason Bradbury).

17 Arthurian and Courtly Romance (Rosalind Field).

18 Alliterative Poetry: Religion and Morality (John Scattergood).

19 Alliterative Poetry and Politics (John Scattergood).

Poets and Poems.

20 The Poet of Pearl, Cleanness and Patience (A. V. C. Schmidt).

21 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tony Davenport).

22 Langland's Piers Plowman (Lawrence Warner).

25 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Corinne Saunders).

Part III Post-Chaucerian and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.

Contexts.

27 England in the Long Fifteenth Century (Matthew Woodcock).

28 Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century (A. S. G. Edwards).

29 Manuscript and Print: Books, Readers and Writers (Julia Boffey).

Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English Poetry (Corinne Saunders).

A Companion To Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350 - c.1500

Edited by Peter Brown

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9552-2

Paperback

688 pages

November 2009, Wiley-Blackwell

US $54.95

PART II The Production and Reception of Texts 91

6. Manuscripts and Readers 93

A. S. G. Edwards

7. From Manuscript to Modern Text 107

Julia Boffey

8. Translation and Society 123

Catherine Batt

PART III Language and Literature 141

9. The Languages of Medieval Britain 143

Laura Wright

PART IV Encounters with Other Cultures 197

12. England and France 199

Ardis Butterfield

PART V Special Themes 271

16. War and Chivalry 273

Richard W. Kaeuper and Montgomery Bohna

17. Literature and Law 292

Richard Firth Green

18. Images 307

Peter Brown

19. Love 322

Barry Windeatt

PART VI Genres 339

20. Middle English Romance 341

Thomas Hahn and Dana M. Symons

21. Writing Nation: Shaping Identity in Medieval Historical Narratives 358

Raluca L. Radulescu

PART VII Readings 489

33. Subjectivity and Ideology in the Canterbury Tales 554

Mark Miller

37. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 619

Kevin Gustafson

38. Blood and Love in Malory's Morte Darthur 634

Catherine La Farge