1st Edition
English Literature in History, 1350–1400 Medieval Readers and Writers
By Janet Coleman
Copyright 1981
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
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The second half of the fourteenth century was an important transition period both in the spheres of literary form and message, and of social, economic, and political power. First published in 1981, English Literature in History, 1350–1400 discusses fourteenth-century literature, verse and prose, in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Middle English, and with the way in which social change—particularly... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Vernacular literacy and lay education 3. The literature of social unrest 4. Memory, preaching and the literature of a society in transition 5. Theology, non-scholastic literature and poetry 6. Conclusion
Biography
Janet Coleman is a British academic and historian of political theory. She was the first woman to receive a chair in the LSE government department. Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman political thought, medieval philosophy, and theories of citizenship and the state.
