Hunting in Middle English Literature

by Anne Rooney

An analysis of the hunt, its imagery and allusion, in Middle English literature.

This book examines for the first time the tradition of hunting imagery and allusion in specifically Middle English literature, and discovers that it differs from the parallel European tradition in its use of certain images.
Anne Rooney begins with a review of the Middle English hunting manuals, the texts that taught the art of hunting principally through instruction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913791
• ISBN13: 9780859913799
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"