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London Literature, 1300-1380 / Ralph Hanna.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanna, Ralph.
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; no. 57
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--England--London--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- England--London.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- Authors, English--Homes and haunts--England--London.
- Authors, English--Homes and haunts.
- London (England)--Intellectual life--To 1500.
- London (England)--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding. Its focus, however, was still strongly local, not national. This study examines in detail the literary production from the capital before, during, and after the time of the Black Death. In this major contribution to the field, Ralph Hanna charts the development and the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing. He uncovers the interactions between texts and authors across a range of languages and genres: not just Middle English, but Anglo-Norman and Latin; not just romance, but also law, history and biblical commentary. Hanna emphasises the uneasy boundaries legal thought and discourse shared with historical and 'romance' thinking, and shows how the technique of romance, Latin writing associated with administrative culture, and biblical interests underwrote the great pre-Chaucerian London poem, William Langland's Piers Plowman.
- Contents:
- In Thrall xii
- 1 English vernacular culture in London before 1380: the evidence 1
- 2 The 'Old' Law 44
- 3 Reading romance in London: The Auchinleck Manuscript and Laud misc. 622 104
- 4 Pepys 2498: Anglo-Norman audiences and London biblical texts 148
- 5 Anglo-Norman's imagined end 222
- 6 'Ledep hire to Londoun pere lawe is yshewed': Piers Plowman B, London, 1377 243
- The end of early London literature 305.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Nov 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511483318
- 9780521848350
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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