English and International
Studies in the Literature, Art and Patronage of Medieval England

Elizabeth Salter's principal works and essays are collected here in one volume.

Derek Pearsall (Edited by), Nicolette Zeeman (Edited by), Elizabeth Salter (Author)

9780521131612, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 February 2010

408 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

This 1988 volume, collected here are the principal essays of Elizabeth Salter published between 1966 and her death in 1980, together with three chapters of a book on the literary culture of England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries on which she was working in the last years of her life, and a version of her brilliant lectures on the theme of the Annuciation to the Shepherds in literature, drama and art given during those years. Elizabeth Salter is recognised as one of the most distinguished medieval scholars of her generation, particularly noted for her work on Langland and Chaucer, and on the relationship of literature and the visual arts. The strength and consistency of her views, the persistent and urgent nature of her preoccupations, and the depth of scholarship and skill of presentation, all emerge more clearly than ever in this volume.

List of plates and plate acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Foreword
List of abbreviations
Part I. An Obsession with the Continent: Introduction
1. Cultural patterns in twelfth-century England: Norman and Angevin
2. Culture and literature in earlier thirteenth-century England: national and international
3. England and the continent during the thirteenth century: royal and aristocratic patronage
Part II. Piers Plowman and Alliterative Poetry: 4. The alliterative revival
5. Piers Plowman: an introduction
6. Piers Plowman and The Simonie
7. Alliterative modes and affiliations in the fourteenth century
8. The timeliness of Wynnere and Wastoure
9. A Complaint against Blacksmiths
Part III. Chaucer: 10. Troilus and Criseyde: a reconsideration
11. Troilus and Criseyde: poet and narrator
12. Chaucer and Internationalism
Part IV. Literature and the Visual Arts: 13. Medieval poetry and the visual arts
14. Piers Plowman and the visual arts
15. The Troilus Frontispiece
16. The Annuciation to the Shepherds in later medieval art and drama
Notes
Bibliography of the published writings of Elizabeth Salter
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], British & Irish history [HBJD1], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400 [ACK]