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Lydgate, John - lĭdˈgāt, c.1370–c.1450, English poet, a monk of Bury St. Edmunds. A professed disciple of Chaucer, he was one of the most influential, voluminous, and versatile writers of the Middle Ages. His works may be divided into three classes: (1) poems written in the Chaucerian manner, such as the Complaint of the Black Knight, which resembles Chaucer's Book of

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John Lydgate: A Study in the Culture of the XVth Century » Read Now
by Walter F. Schirmer, Ann E. Keep. 303 pgs.

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...JOHN LYDGATE JOHN LYDGATE A Study in the Culture of the XVth Century WALTER F. SCHIRMER...and Los Angeles California First published in German 1952 as John Lydgate: Ein...
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The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Chap. 1 "'Dysemol Daies and Fatal Houres': Lydgate's Destruction of Thebes and Chaucer's Knight's Tale") » Read Now
by Helen Cooper, Sally Mapstone. 362 pgs.

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This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Douglas Gray, editor of the groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. The essays provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature, stressing its importance, interest, and richness.
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The Glass of Form: Mirroring Structures from Chaucer to Skelton (Chap. Two "'Atwixen Two so Hang I in Balance': Lydgate and the Temple of Glas") » Read Now
by Anna Torti. 138 pgs.

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The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Middle English Romance (Chap. I "The Prose of Thebes, Military Manuals, and the Conduct of Sieges in the Later Middle Ages") » Read Now
by Malcolm Hebron. 198 pgs.

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Sieges were a popular subject in medieval romances. Tales of the Crusades featured champions of Christianity capturing towns in the Holy Land or mounting heroic defences. The fall of a great city such as Troy, Thebes, or Jerusalem provided opportunities for the recreation of ancient chivalry and for...
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Sieges were a popular subject in medieval romances. Tales of the Crusades featured champions of Christianity capturing towns in the Holy Land or mounting heroic defences. The fall of a great city such as Troy, Thebes, or Jerusalem provided opportunities for the recreation of ancient chivalry and for reflections on historical change. Images of the siege in romances also point to other forms, such as drama and love allegory, where it represents the trial of the soul or the pursuit of the beloved. This book is the first full-length study of an important theme in medieval literature. Close reading of selected Middle English shows how writers used descriptions of sieges to explore such subjects as military strategy, heroism, chivalry, and attitudes to the past. This study also draws on a wide range of writings in several languages, to set the romances in a broad context. When they are seen against a background of military manuals, patristic commentary, pageantry, and love poetry, the sieges of romance take on deeper resonances of meaning and reflect the vitality of the theme in medieval culture as a whole.
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Lydgate's Mummings and the Aristocratic Resistance to Drama, in Comparative Drama » Read Now
by Robert Epstein. 21 pgs.

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Heroism and Organicism in the Case of Lydgate, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by William Deresiewicz. 19 pgs.

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...even more, that of Lydgate, are seen as implicit...but Thomas Aquinas, John Milton, Andreas Vesalius...for cases, but for John and Elizabeth, especially...Elizabeth" (p...
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The Boston Public Library Manuscript of John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes: Its Scottish Owners and Inscriptions, in Medium Aevum » Read Now
by Priscilla J. Bawcutt. 16 pgs.

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...BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN LYDGATES SIEGE OF THEBES: ITS SCOTTISH...by PRISCILLA J. BAWCUTT John Lydgates Siege of Thebes has received increasing...if...
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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature ("John Lydgate's Dietary and 'A Doctrine for Pestilence'" begins on p. 131) » Read Now
by Bryon Lee Grigsby. 206 pgs.

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This book examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and literary authors from the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases...
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This book examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and literary authors from the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidermic diseases to the sins of carnality.
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Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry ("Ephemeral Hermeneutics: Lydgatean Poetry and Commentary" begins on p. 129) » Read Now
by Theresa Tinkle. 298 pgs.

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This book establishes the range of meanings bestowed on the love deities through the later Middle Ages, and draws on feminist and cultural theories to offer new models for interpreting both academic Latin discourses and vernacular poetry.
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New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies ("The 'Decommissioning' of John Lydgate's Chaucer" begins on p. 192) » Read Now
by Derek Pearsall. 213 pgs.

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Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (Discussion of John Lydgate begins on p. 166) » Read Now
by Corinne Saunders. 343 pgs.

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This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle...
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This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English literary portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. The treatment of rape and ravishment is considered across a wide range of literary genres: hagiography, where female saints are repeatedly threatened with rape; legendary history, as in the stories of Lucretia and Helen; and romance, where acts of rape and ravishment challenge and shape chivalric order, and romance heroes are conceived through rape. Finally, the ways in which Malory and Chaucer write and rewrite rape and ravishment are examined.Dr CORINNE SAUNDERS is Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Department of English, University of Durham.
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Humor in British Literature, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration: A Reference Guide (Discussion of John Lydgate begins on p. 31) » Read Now
by Don L. E. Nilsen. 230 pgs.

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Humor began in British literature during the Middle Ages, when Chaucer developed the storytelling tradition along with the ironies that resulted from the juxtaposition of people from different classes and points of view. This book overviews scholarship on humor in British literature from its...
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Humor began in British literature during the Middle Ages, when Chaucer developed the storytelling tradition along with the ironies that resulted from the juxtaposition of people from different classes and points of view. This book overviews scholarship on humor in British literature from its medieval origins through the seventeenth century. Chapters are devoted to particular centuries, with authors listed individually within each chapter. Each entry discusses the role of humor in the author's work and includes a bibliography.
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