Language, lineage and location in the works of osbern bokenham / by Alice Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Alice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bokenham, Osbern, 1393?-1447?--History and criticism.

Bokenham, Osbern.

Religious poetry, English (Middle).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first book-length study to consider the works of Osbern Bokenham in the light of the discovery of his long-lost magnum opus, the so-called Abbotsford Legenda Aurea, in 2004. Bokenham is an author who, throughout his oeuvre, never tires of stressing his own marginality, historically (as the belated, inferior son of greater poets) and geographically (as an Englishman writing in the vernacular). Notwithstanding this, he negotiates with the very spatial and temporal perspectives which...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; CHAPTER TWO; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; CHAPTER THREE; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; CHAPTER FOUR; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; PART FIVE; PART SIX; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-4537-X

OCLC:

827209118