TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomonori Matsushita
AU  - A.V.C. Schmidt
AU  - David J. Wallace
PY  - 2011
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035301595
TI  - From «Beowulf» to Caxton
T2  - Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0159-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051931
N2  - Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature – primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature. These international collaborations inform and contribute to the present volume, which addresses the heritage bequeathed to medieval English language and literature by the classical world.  This volume explores the development of medieval English literature in light of contact with Germanic and Old Norse cultures, on the one hand, and Romance languages, on the other. The book includes a comparative study of Beowulf in the Germanic context, discusses aspects of Piers Plowman and its tradition, and offers philological approaches to Chaucer (especially his Troilus and Criseyde). The articles assembled here collectively suggest how the torches of classical learning were carried from continental Europe to illuminate the pages of medieval English literature.
KW  - medieval English literature, Germanic and Old Norse cultures, Beowulf, Chaucer, Piers Plowman
LA  - English
ER  -