English Literature in History, 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers

The second half of the fourteenth century was an important transition period both in the spheres of literary form and message, and of social, economic, and political power. First published in 1981, English Literature in History, 1350-1400 discusses fourteenth-century literature, verse and prose, in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Middle English, and with the way in which social change-particularly the growth of lay literacy and social mobility-is expressed in the literature. Dr Coleman argues that...