Readings in Medieval Poetry

Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland King Horn Havelok Sir Orfeo Chaucer''s Book of the Duchess House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde the alliterative Morte Arthure The Siege of Jerusalem Purity Pearl Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry being discussed they frequently involve along with historical treatments in terms of medieval practices and systems of ideas the adoption and adaptation of theoretical frameworks borrowed from outside the medieval field.