Floure and the Leafe, the Assembly of Ladies, the Isle of Ladies (TEAMS Middle English Texts)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0918720435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"a very essentiall book for the scholars" according to özlem aydýn. When I first began writing my MA thesis on The Flower and the Leaf and The Assembly of Ladies,I had difficulty in obtaining the original book prepared and edited by Pearsall in 1962. I got it by chance from an american scholar who recently studied on the texts and finally I had the 1990 edition.In this respect, it is an essential book for the academic studies on the tex
Derek Pearsall is Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard. . He has published extensively on Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and other medieval subjects
All of the poems include contextualizing introductions and helpful glosses; there is also an extensive glossary for the entire volume, rendering the volume useful to not only beginning students of Middle English but also to more advanced students of this topic.. The Floure and the Leafe explores the courtly imagery of the flower and leaf, wherein the flower symbolizes the fickleness and shallow attraction characteristic of men, compared to the evergreen persistence of the leaf, likened to the long-suffering of women. Finally, the dream poem The Isle of Ladies tells of a male dreamer's interactions with the ladies of an all-female island. Meanwhile, The Assembly of Ladies recounts the activities of a group of women while describing the differences between the sexes. An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complem
He has published extensively on Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and other medieval subjects. . About the Author Derek Pearsall is Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard