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Readership: Students of medieval English literature
J. A. Burrow, Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow, University of Bristol
"This book is the most effective introduction to Middle English literature that I know. It is everywhere alert to the ways that modern literary sensibilities need to be adjusted in order to appreciate the medieval norm, and Burrow combines astonishing learning with a pedagogical shrewdness that always picks out just the telling passage or focusing cultural fact. This second edition adds a great deal of new and equally important material to a work that had already become a classic in its own right." - Christopher Cannon, Girton College, Cambridge
1: The period and the literature 2: Writers, audiences, and readers 3: Major genres 4: Modes of meaning 5: The afterlife of Middle English literature Notes Bibliography
