A book of Middle English /
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Author / Creator: | Burrow, J. A. (John Anthony) |
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Edition: | 3rd ed. |
Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. |
Description: | viii, 419 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Grammar. English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Readers. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500. English language English language -- Middle English. English language -- Middle English -- Grammar. English literature -- Middle English. Readers. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5548437 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Abbreviations
- Part I.
- 1. Introducing Middle English
- 2. Pronouncing Middle English
- 3. Vocabulary
- 4. Inflexions
- 5. Syntax
- 6. Metre
- 7. From Manuscript to Printed Text
- 8. Select Bibliography
- Part II. Note on Treatment of Texts
- 1. The Peterborough Chronicle
- 2. The Owl and the Nightingale
- 3. Layamon's Brut
- 4. Ancrene Wisse
- 5. Sir Orfeo
- 6. The Cloud of Unknowing
- 7. William Langland: Piers Plowman
- 8. Patience
- 9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 10. St Erkenwald
- 11. John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk
- 12. John Gower: Confession Amantis
- 13. Lyrics
- 14. The York Play of the Crucifixion
- 15. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls
- 16. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
- 17. Textual Notes
- 18. Glossary
- 19. Index