Author Description

The remarkable and diverse literature produced in the fascinating later medieval period - one of war, transitions, and challenges - is not as widely known as it deserves to be. In this descriptive guide the pre-eminent scholar of medieval literature Douglas Gray provides the non-specialist reader with an illuminating account of the extensive literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century. Placing the works under consideration in their landscape of cultural history, Gray's survey includes a valuable a chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.