Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: poetry, medieval, readings
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1989-05-26
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521311330
ISBN-13: 9780521311335

Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and, while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry being discussed, they frequently involve, along with historical treatments in terms of medieval practices and systems

Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: poetry, dream, medieval
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1976-11-24
List price: $44.50
ISBN-10: 0521211948
ISBN-13: 9780521211949

A 1976 study of the medieval English dream-poem, set against the background of classical and medieval visionary and religious writings and the theory of dreams from classical times down to Freud and Jung. In this first general treatment of one of the most popular kinds of literature in the Middle Ages, Mr Spearing examines many specific poems in some detail and explores the nature of the visionary tradition in which medieval dream-poets felt themselves to be writing: he develops a theory of the dream-poem as a type of work in which medieval poets focused their own consciousness of the activity

Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: study, critical, poet, gawain
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1976-09-24
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0521291194
ISBN-13: 9780521291194

A study of the four great Middle English poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience and Purity, which are in the same manuscript and are usually attributed to the same anonymous poet. After a general chapter devoted to the poet and his background, Mr Spearing turns to the poems, analysing each closely, paying particular attention to details of style, tone and approach, and commenting on what they have in common and the ways in which they diverge.

Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: subjectivity, lyrics, narratives, encoding, textual, medieval
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-12-29
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0198187246
ISBN-13: 9780198187240

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics--not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book includes analyses of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Man of Law’s Tale, and Complaint Unto Pity, the works of the Pearl poet, Havelok the Dane, the lyric sequence attributed to Charles of Orleans (the earliest such sequence in English), and ma

Authors:Various, Elizabeth Spearing,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, spirituality, female, writings, medieval
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-05-28
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140439250
ISBN-13: 9780140439250

Biographies, poetic compositions, works that are mystical, prophetic, visionary, or meditative: the selections here reflect the developments in medieval piety, particularly in the link between female spirituality and the body. Included are the dramatic visionary writings of Hildegard of Bingen; letters and poems by Hadewijch expressing passionate love for God; and Marguerite Porete’s allegorical poem "The Mirror of Simple Souls," a dialogue between Love and Soul that was condemned as heretical. Also included are biographies written by male ecclesiastics of women such as Christine the Ast