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OverviewThis collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of thecentury, John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, receive detailed analysis, alongside perhaps lesser-known authors: John Capgrave, Osbern Bokenham, Peter Idley, George Ashby and John Audelay. In addition, several essays examine genres and topics, including romance, popular, historical and scientific poetry, and translations from the classics. Other chapters investigate the crucial contexts for approaching poetry of this period: manuscript circulation, patronageand the influence of Chaucer. Julia Boffey is Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; A.S.G. Edwards is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards, Susanna Fein, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Sarah James, Andrew King, Sheila Lindenbaum, Joanna Martin, Carol Meale, Robert Meyer-Lee, Ad Putter, John Scattergood, Anke Timmermann, DanielWakelin, David Watt. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julia Boffey , Professor A. S. G. Edwards , Professor A. S. G. Edwards , Ad PutterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: D.S. Brewer Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.396kg ISBN: 9781843844303ISBN 10: 1843844303 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 21 April 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. 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Table of ContentsIntroduction - A S G Edwards The Patronage of Poetry - Carol Meale Forms of Circulation - Simon Horobin Thomas Hoccleve - Sheila Lindenbaum Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes - David Watt John Lydgate's Major Poems - Robert J Meyer-Lee John Lydgate's Religious Poetry - Anthony Bale John Lydgate's Shorter Secular Poems - Joanna Martin John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: Verse Saints' Lives - Sarah James Peter Idley and George Ashby - John Scattergood John Audelay and James Ryman - Susanna Fein Fifteenth-Century Chaucerian Visions - Ad Putter Historical and Political Verse - Alfred Hiatt Classical and Humanist Translations - Daniel Wakelin Romance - Andrew King Scientific and Encyclopaedic Verse - Anke Timmermann Popular Verse Tales - Julia Boffey Beyond the Fifteenth Century - A S G EdwardsReviewsThe fine scholarship and the deft writing ensure that this collection will stimulate and facilitate further expansions of the field and will remain an essential Companion. SHARP NEWS An impressive display of careful attention and mature scholarly interest. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW (T)he Companion will certainly prove useful to fifteenth-century specialists and nonspecialists alike. . . . In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspective on the current state of fifteenth-century studies and to point the field in some new directions. SPECULUM An impressive display of careful attention and mature scholarly interest. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW (T)he Companion will certainly prove useful to fifteenth-century specialists and nonspecialists alike... In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspective on the current state of fifteenth-century studies and to point the field in some new directions. SPECULUM The fine scholarship and the deft writing ensure that this collection will stimulate and facilitate further expansions of the field and will remain an essential Companion. SHARP NEWS An impressive display of careful attention and mature scholarly interest. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW (T)he Companion will certainly prove useful to fifteenth-century specialists and nonspecialists alike. . . . In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspecti. . In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspective on the curren The fine scholarship and the deft writing ensure that this collection will stimulate and facilitate further expansions of the field and will remain an essential Companion. * SHARP NEWS * An impressive display of careful attention and mature scholarly interest. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW * [T]he Companion will certainly prove useful to fifteenth-century specialists and nonspecialists alike. . . . In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspective on the current state of fifteenth-century studies and to point the field in some new directions. * SPECULUM * The fine scholarship and the deft writing ensure that this collection will stimulate and facilitate further expansions of the field and will remain an essential Companion. SHARP NEWS An impressive display of careful attention and mature scholarly interest. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW [T]he Companion will certainly prove useful to fifteenth-century specialists and nonspecialists alike. . . . In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspective on the current state of fifteenth-century studies and to point the field in some new directions. SPECULUM Author InformationJULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. 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