Le Livre Des Merveilles Du Monde

The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historical prose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A. WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings.

Ce manuscrit (n° 22971, du département des manuscrits de la BNF) se compose d'une géographie imaginaire de cinquante-six pays du monde, présentés par ordre alphabétique, et d'une encyclopédie thématique sur la nature. Une compilation d'informations puisées aux sources antiques et médiévales rédigée vers la fin du XIVe siècle. A.-C. Beaugendre a soutenu une thèse à l'école des Chartes à ce sujet. « Copyright Electre »