Lydgate Matters Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century

, by Cooper, Lisa H.; Denny-Brown, Andrea

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ISBN: 9781403976741 | 1403976740
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/15/2007

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This collection seeks to re-evaluate fifteenth-century English poetry in light of recent scholarly interest in the verse of popular poet John Lydgate and medieval material culture more broadly.

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Introduction: Lydgate Matters	p. 1
Lydgate and London's Public Culture	p. 13
Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycome and Chychevache	p. 35
Sovereignty and Sewage	p. 57
Lydgate's Worst Poem	p. 71
"Markys...off the Workman": Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man	p. 89
Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters	p. 113
St. George and the "Steyned Halle": Lydgate's Verse for the London Armourers	p. 139
Lydgate, Location, and the Poetics of Exemption	p. 165
Afterword: Lydgate's Refrain: The Open When	p. 185
List of Contributors	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 215
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Lydgate Matters Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century

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