Through a carefully-chosen selection of medieval love letters, Myra Stokes and Ad Putter explore the blurred boundary between literary art and actual missives. This anthology brings together epistolary poems, model letters and real letters and includes critical editions of seven remarkable and substantial texts not easily available elsewhere.
Through a carefully-chosen selection of medieval love letters, Myra Stokes and Ad Putter explore the blurred boundary between literary art and actual missives. This anthology brings together epistolary poems, model letters and real letters and includes critical editions of seven remarkable and substantial texts not easily available elsewhere.
Myra Stokes's published work ranges across the languages and literatures of other European vernaculars as well as Old and Middle English. Her books include Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman (1984; reprinted 2020), The Language of Jane Austen (1991) and (as co-author) Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse (2007). With Ad Putter she edited The Works of the Gawain Poet (Penguin English Poets, 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter: 1. Art and Actuality: an Overview 2. Occasions Ways and Means Male and Female Voices 3. Clerics and Convents Part II. Fictional and Instructional Models Text 1. Boncompagno da Signa: Rota Veneris Text 2. London, British Library, Harley MS 3988 Text 3. The Parliament of Love Part III. Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives) Text 4. the Norfolk Letters: the Abbot to the Nun Text 5. Oxford, Corpus Christi, MS 154 Text 6. the Armburgh Love-Letters Text 7. Pierre de Hagenbach and the Canoness at Remiremont - The Council of Remiremont - Conrad Pfettisheim's Account of Pierre de Hagenbach.
Part I. Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter: 1. Art and Actuality: an Overview 2. Occasions Ways and Means Male and Female Voices 3. Clerics and Convents Part II. Fictional and Instructional Models Text 1. Boncompagno da Signa: Rota Veneris Text 2. London, British Library, Harley MS 3988 Text 3. The Parliament of Love Part III. Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives) Text 4. the Norfolk Letters: the Abbot to the Nun Text 5. Oxford, Corpus Christi, MS 154 Text 6. the Armburgh Love-Letters Text 7. Pierre de Hagenbach and the Canoness at Remiremont - The Council of Remiremont - Conrad Pfettisheim's Account of Pierre de Hagenbach.
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