A book of Middle English /

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Author / Creator:Burrow, J. A. (John Anthony)
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
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Other authors / contributors:Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
ISBN:1405117087 (alk. paper)
1405117095 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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