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Anne Laskaya (Ed.) - The Middle English Breton Lays (Middle English texts) - 9781879288621 - V9781879288621
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The Middle English Breton Lays (Middle English texts)

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Description for The Middle English Breton Lays (Middle English texts) Paperback. Editor(s): Laskaya, Anna; Salisbury, Eve. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 792.
This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series
Number of Pages
452
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781879288621
SKU
V9781879288621
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About Anne Laskaya (Ed.)
Anne Laskaya is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Her publications include also Chaucer's Approach to Gender in The Canterbury Tales, Cambridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, D.S. Brewer, 1995; The World of Literature, a textbook co-edited with Louise Westling, Stephen Durrant, James Earl, Stephen Kohl, and Steven Shankman, Prentice-Hall, 1999; "The Rhetoric of Incest in the ... Read more

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