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Margaret Schlauch.
English Medieval Literature and its Social Foundations.
Published Warsaw; Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; no dustjacket.
Printed in Poland.
Size: 172x241x27mm.
Page count: xvi,367 plus 20pp.
Main language: English; quotations not always given with a translation.
Overall condition fair: boards a little grubby and foxed, some wear to the edges and corners; page edges somewhat grubby and yellowed; at least 1 page has some pencilled underlining.

This item £14.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 901g.

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Contents: Period of origins; Latin literature of the schools & vernacular literature of the courts; Religious poetry — epic, didactic, visionary; Late Old English literature; Early feudalism — earliest short texts in Middle English; Early Anglo-Latin literature — Angevin period; Anglo-French literature; Learning & instruction in the vernacular (13th & 14th cc.); Flourishing of romance & didactic literature in English; Contemporaries of Chaucer; Chaucer — life & earlier works; Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Decline of feudal literature; Early Tudor period — an age of transition.

Illustrations: 8 text illustrations, plus 20 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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