Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Endings and Beginnings
- 2: Recording Culture, c. 450-1450
- 3: Textual Production and Reception
- 4: Literary Audiences, Literary Identities
- 5: Individual and Community
- 6: The Mighty and the Monstrous
- 7: Love and Longing
- 8: Death and Judgement
- 9: Patronage and Ownership
- 10: Coda: Reimagining the Medieval
- Timeline
- Terms and genres
- Further reading
- Index