TY  - BOOK
AU  - Treharne,Elaine
TI  - Medieval literature: a very short introduction 
T2  - Very short introductions
SN  - 9780199668496
AV  - PR255 .T74 2015
U1  - 820.9/001 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English literature
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - fast
KW  - Middle English
KW  - Littérature médiévale
KW  - ram
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-133) and index; Introduction: endings and beginnings -- Literary origins -- Textual production and performance -- Literary spaces, literary identities -- Individual and community -- The mighty and the monstrous -- Love and longing -- Death and judgement -- Consolidating literary traditions -- Coda: print and the canon
N2  - " ... provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints' lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the major periods in literary history."--Provided by publisher
ER  -