Ebook: Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous.;Introduction: endings and beginnings -- Literary origins -- Textual production and performance -- Literary spaces, literary identities -- Individual and community -- The mighty and the monstrous -- Love and longing -- Death and judgement -- Consolidating literary traditions -- Coda: print and the canon.