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Watson, Katherine. "The genius and construction of our Saxon poetry: old and middle English verse." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29224.

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Today, 'Anglo-Saxon origins, even in the educated or culturally Iiterate mind, remain a blank: nothing happened before 1066' 1. T. A. Shippey makes the point that the Anglo-Saxon world 'has no presence at all in modern life' ,2 particularly in contrast to the powerful presence of both the Viking World and the Arthurian one.3 England failed to retain or develop a flag, anthem, national symbology, etc., even in an era of violent European nationalism'.4 Why did England fail to develop an origin myth? Shippey suggests that England 'forfeited' its national identity in the nineteenth century, when '

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Greentree, Rosemary. "An annotated bibliography of the Middle English lyric /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phg815.pdf.

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Sheen, Ding-Taou. "The historical development of reciprocal pronouns in middle English with selected early modern English comparisons." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/558329.

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In Modern English, EACH OTHER and ONE ANOTHER are morphologically fixed as reciprocal compound pronouns. The reciprocal construction has been developed and used in every period of the English language. The main purpose of this study, nevertheless, was to investigate the ways to express the notion of reciprocity in Middle English and Early Modern English.The morphological analyses of the citations demonstrate that Middle English employed a great variety of head words and phrases than does Modern English in reciprocal structures. EACH, EITHER, EVERY, and ONE most frequently appear as head words

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Rogers, Janine. "The woman's voice in Middle English love lyrics /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69671.

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Courtly love lyrics, like other courtly genres, are dominated by male-voiced texts that privilege male perspectives. In conventional courtly love lyrics, women are silenced and objectified by the male speaker. Still, a handful of women-voiced lyrics--"women's songs"--exist in the courtly love lyrical tradition. This thesis studies women's songs in Middle English and their role in the androcentric courtly love tradition.<br>In the first chapter, I discuss critical perspectives on conventional courtly representations of women. In the second chapter, I locate Middle English women's songs in liter

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Iyeiri, Yoko. "Negative constructions in selected Middle English verse texts." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2795.

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The objective of the present study is to investigate the historical development of negative constructions in ME verse and to provide a descriptive account of it. The central issues analyzed in this thesis are: (1) the usage of the negative adverbs 'ne', 'not' and some other negative elements such as 'never', 'no', etc.; (2) the occurrence of negative contraction as illustrated by 'nam' (< ne am) and 'nolde' (< ne wolde); and (3) the development and the decline of multiple negation. The thesis has both a chronological and a geographical perspective, since it examines changes in usage which took

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Clout, Karen. "Mi suete leuedi, her mi béne : the power and patronage of the heroine in Middle English romance." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21202.

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This thesis examines the heroines in Middle English romances and argues that, like the noblewomen who lived in England during the Plantagenet period, they are not helpless princesses simply waiting to be rescued by the brave, strong hero. In fact, these heroines show an enormous amount of intelligence, ingenuity, perseverance, and strength of character. Many play a pivotal role in the hero's success in his quest by giving him a token, providing knowledge, or teaching him a lesson. Also, it is the heroines who provide the heroes with rewards after the quests are completed. The present thesis of

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Djordjevic, Ivana. "Mapping medieval translation : methodological problems and a case study." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82856.

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The extent to which translation moulded Middle English romance as an emerging genre remains largely unexamined. In this dissertation I identify the principal methodological difficulties that have prevented scholars from giving due attention to this problem, and offer a case study in which I look at how translational procedures shaped the romance of Sir Beves of Hampton, a translation of the Anglo-Norman Boeve de Haumtone .<br>Having outlined the practical difficulties posed by the intricate textual tradition of Boeve and Beves, the multilingualism of medieval England, and the scarcity o

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McNamara, Rebecca Fields. "Code-switching in medieval England : register variety in the literature of Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Usk and Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669980.

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Knox, Philip. "The Romance of the Rose in fourteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d55e2158-a9ee-4bf2-b8e4-98d7e0c6a598.

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This thesis traces the afterlife of the Romance of the Rose in fourteenth-century England. Whether it was closely imitated or only faintly recalled, I argue that the Rose exercised its influence on fourteenth-century English literature in two principal ways. Firstly, in the development of a self-reflexive focus on how meaning is produced and transmitted. Secondly, in a concern with how far the author's intentions can be recovered from a work, and to what extent the author must claim some responsibility for the meaning of a text after its release into the world of readers. In the Rose, many of

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Neufeld, Christine Marie. "Xanthippe's sisters : orality and femininity in the later Middle Ages." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38251.

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This dissertation contributes to medieval feminist scholarship by forging new insights into the relationship between gender theory and developing notions of orality and textuality in late medieval Europe. I examine three conventional satirical depictions of women as deviant speakers in medieval literature---as loquacious gossips, scolding shrews and cursing witches---to reveal how medieval perceptions of oral and textual discursive modes influenced literary representations of women. The dissertation demonstrates that our comprehension of the literary battle between the sexes requires a recogni

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Madrinkian, Michael Alex. "Producing 'Piers Plowman' to 1475 : author, scribe, and reader." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1d0f9bd5-04d8-4edd-bccb-2f95b403165e.

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My doctoral thesis, "Producing Piers Plowman to 1475: Author, Scribe, and Reader," charts a new material history of William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision, Piers Plowman, from its earliest composition to the onset of print in England. The study is divided into three sections, which examine the production of Piers from three perspectives: textual history, manuscript circulation, and medieval reception. The first section of the thesis conducts a study of Langland's revisionary process, presenting a new theory of authorial revision from the A to B version that has important implicatio

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Varnam, Laura. "The howse of God on Erthe : constructions of sacred space in late Middle English religious literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670140.

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Wright, Michelle. "Time, consciousness and narrative play in late medieval secular dream poetry and framed narratives." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2017. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives(7cbf5e12-c655-4177-84f8-1445f1ffef85).html.

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This thesis considers time and narrative play in dream poems and framed narratives. It begins with a chapter on the history of time perceptions and time-telling, and explores how ideas about time influenced medieval writers. It also surveys some modern views on the history of time-measurement a nd its influences on culture and the collective consciousness. Chapter two, after analysing the treatment of time in the Roman de la Rose, surveys some of the ways in which modern criticism has evaluated and conceived the genre of secular dream literature that developed from the Roman de la Rose. Chapte

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Walther, James T. "Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2592/.

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William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman was probably the first medieval English poem to achieve a national audience because Langland chose to write in the vernacular and he used the specialized vocabularies of his readership to open the poem to them. During the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, writers began using the vernacular in an attempt to allow all English people access to their texts. They did so consciously, indicating their intent in prologues and envois when they formally address readers. Some writers, like Langland and the author of Mankind, actually use representati

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Brookman, Helen Elizabeth. "From the margins : scholarly women and the translation and editing of medieval English literature in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609521.

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Reed, Delanna Kay. "Readers Theatre in Performance: The Analysis and Compilation of Period Literature for a Modern Renaissance Faire." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500784/.

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The thrust of this study was twofold: to research and compile a script of English Medieval and Renaissance literature and to direct a group performance of the script in the oral interpretation mode at Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie, Texas. The study sought to show that a Readers Theatre script compiled of literature from the oral tradition of England was a suitable art form for a twentieth-century audience and that Readers Theatre benefited participants in the Scarborough Faire workshop program. This study concluded that the performed script appealed to a modern audience and that workshop tra

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Bellis, Joanna Ruth. "Language, literature, and the Hundred Years War, 1337-1600." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609852.

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Sawyer, Daniel. "Codicological evidence of reading in late medieval England, with particular reference to practical pastoral verse." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8c21053f-e347-4349-9cc4-b1fa0229e95a.

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This study advances and adds detail to our history of the reading of verse in England c.1350-1500. Scholarship has established major twelfth- and thirteenth-century changes in reading, and linked these changes to manuscripts containing the modern Middle English verse canon. Historians of early modern reading have also argued for distinctive changes in their own period. But the examination of reading between these two clusters of change has been limited. This study therefore asks how later medieval Middle English verse was read. The surviving copies of The Prick of Conscience and Speculum Vitae

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Murray, Kylie Marie. "Dream and vision in Scotland, c.1375-1500." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669934.

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Mair, Olivia. "Merchants and mercantile culture in later medieval Italian and English literature." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0088.

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[Truncated abstract] The later medieval Western European economy was shaped by a marked increase in commerce and rapid urbanisation. The commercialisation of later medieval society is the background to this research, whose focus is the ways in which later medieval Italian and English literature registers and responds to the expanding marketplace and the rise of an urban mercantile class. What began as an investigation of the representation of merchants and business in a selection of this literature has become an attempt to address broader questions about the later medieval economy in relation

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Flight, Tim. "Apophasis, contemplation, and the kenotic moment in Anglo-Saxon literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:16f34b87-8c3a-4fe1-9dbb-d8c6e3545bd8.

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This thesis reveals the considerable influence of contemplation (sometimes referred to as mysticism) on Anglo-Saxon literature, manifested through the arrangement of narratives according to the theological concepts of apophasis and kenosis. This is demonstrated through a lengthy contextual discussion of the place of contemplation in Anglo-Saxon spirituality, and close analysis of four poems and a prose text. Although English mysticism is commonly thought to start in the High Middle Ages, this thesis will suggest that this terminus post quem should instead be resituated to the Anglo-Saxon perio

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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth. "Rhetorical Transformations of Trees in Medieval England: From Material Culture to Literary Representation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130/.

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Literary texts of medieval England feature trees as essential to the individual and communal identity as it intersects with nature, and the compelling qualities and organic processes associated with trees help vernacular writers interrogate the changing nature of this character. The early depiction of trees demonstrates an intimacy with nature that wanes after the tenth-century monastic revival, when the representation of trees as living, physical entities shifts toward their portrayal as allegorical vehicles for the Church's didactic use. With the emergence of new social categories in the lat

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Kelly-Penot, Elizabeth. "Traduction, transformation et la résurgence d’une littérature en langue anglaise dans l’Angleterre des 13e et 14e siècles : le Brut de Laȝamon, Kyng Alisaunder et leurs sources." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040204.

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Cette thèse propose d’explorer les enjeux de la pratique de la traduction de français en anglais après la Conquête normande, à partir d’une comparaison des deux romans anglais et leurs sources respectives. La première partie s’attachera à examiner le rapport entre le Roman de Brut, écrit au 12e siècle par l’auteur francophone Wace, et sa traduction en anglais, le Brut de La3amon, effectuée au début du 13e siècle. Une autre étude constituera l’essentiel de la seconde partie, portant sur l’examen comparatif de deux versions, française et anglaise, du roman d’Alexandre le Grand : le Roman de tout

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Soreau, Véronique. "« La médecine par les plantes et les étoiles entre le quinzième et le seizième siècle en Angleterre. Édition inédite d'une sélection de textes en moyen-anglais de quatre manuscrits situés à Trinity College Library, Cambridge : MSS O.1.13, O.5.26, R.14.32, R.14.51, et commentaires. Deux volumes. »." Thesis, Poitiers, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018POIT5023.

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C'est par l'édition inédite d'une sélection de textes d'exception en moyen-anglais provenant de quatre manuscrits situés à Trinity College Library à Cambridge : MSS O.1.13, O.5.26, R.14.32 et R.14.51 que peuvent renaître les recettes médicales, les charmes, les traités astrologiques et médicaux, les poèmes médicaux et les poèmes sur les vertus des plantes en moyen anglais. Ces trésors de la période médiévale appartiennent à une tradition culturelle et scientifique ancestrale : la médecine ou philosophie naturelle, héritage de l'Egypte et des auteurs et traducteurs grecs, latins et arabes. Ce q

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Schwaller, Nicolas. "La Bible anglo-normande : l'Exode : étude philologique de l'anglo-normand : édition critique du livre de l'Exode de la Bible anglo-normande." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023STRAC017.

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La Bible anglo-normande est une traduction de la Bible du latin vers l’anglo-normand. Cette traduction est disponible dans deux manuscrits médiévaux du XIVe siècle (manuscrit de Paris et manuscrit de Londres). La thèse propose l’édition critique du livre de l’Exode en utilisant le manuscrit de Londres comme manuscrit principal et celui de Paris comme varia. La thèse est composée d’une introduction générale qui présente les manuscrits, suivie d’une présentation linguistique qui présente les aspects linguistiques propres à la langue anglo-normande d’un point de vue morphologique, morphosyntaxiqu

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Cole, Kristin Lynn 1971. "Rum, ram, ruf, and rym: Middle English alliterative meters." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3561.

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The alliterating poems written during the Alliterative Revival have mistakenly been grouped together metrically, when in fact they represent a diversity of meters. They mainly use the same phonology, however, which was also current in Chaucer and Gower's poetic dialects. In detailing the diverse meters, this study argues that the meter is simple and learnable both in the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries. Chapter 1 establishes the current intractability of Middle English metrical studies, defines the English context in which these poems were written, and challenges the traditional bifurcat

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Greentree, Rosemary. "An annotated bibliography of the Middle English lyric / Rosemary Greentree." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19480.

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Includes bibliography (leaves 709-711) and indexes.<br>lxix, 968 leaves ; 30 cm.<br>Chronological survey of editions and criticisms of the Middle English lyric emphasising 20th century works. Summarizes the content of each work and conveys its style and the author's voice by means of quotations. A general introduction discusses critical trends and aspects of the genre. Concludes with indexes of scholars and critics ; subjects discussed ; first lines of poems listed in the Index of Middle English Verse and its Supplement ; and, a temporary index of poems not noted in either.<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--

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Sokolov, Danila. "Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Vernacular Genealogies of English Petrarchism from Wyatt to Wroth." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6815.

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This dissertation investigates the symbolic presence of medieval forms of textual selfhood in early modern English Petrarchan poetry. Undertaking a systematic re-reading of a significant body of English Petrarchism through the prism of late medieval English poetry, it argues that medieval poetic texts inscribe in the vernacular literary imaginary (i.e. a repository of discursive forms and identities available to early modern writers through antecedent and contemporaneous literary utterances) a network of recognizable and iterable discursive structures and associated subject positions; and that

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LeCluyse, Christopher Charles. "Sacred bilingualism code switching in medieval English verse /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3114768.

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Gilbertson, Kelly-Anne. "A 15th century treatise on horses : a critical edition from a manuscript in a private collection." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12501.

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M.A. (English)<br>The treatise on horses that forms the basis of this study is a composite text found in a 15th century manuscript previously owned by HRH Duke of Gloucester (MS G). Although sections of this text have been partially edited from other witnesses, it has hitherto been unedited from this witness. This study offers a critical edition of this treatise, including a semi-diplomatic transcription of the text, the edited text together with a textual apparatus, textual commentary and a glossary. The purpose of this study is to provide a transparent reflection of the process of editing th

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