Troy Book: Selections

by John Lydgate, Robert R Edwards

Overview

To introduce John Lydgate's landmark poem the Troy Book to students and non-specialist readers, the editor has selected the essential passages from the poem and bridges any gaps with textual summaries. Also included are an introduction, gloss, notes, and a glossary. John Lydgate, a monk of the great Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, began composing the poem, an ambitious attempt at recounting the Trojan War in Middle English, in October 1412 on commission from Henry, Prince of Wales (later King Henry V), and completed it in 1420. The poem is an interesting study for those interested in medieval approaches to classical sources, as well as for its often contradictory and complicated take on contemporary chivalry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879288997
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	03/01/1998
Series:	TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Robert R. Edwards is Professor of English and comparative literature at Penn State. He specializes in medieval literature, with particular interests in Chaucer, continental and Latin literary relations, and authorship in trilingual England.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Select Bibliography Troy Book Prologue Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Envoy Notes Glossary

Editorial Reviews

Aims to make John Lydgate's accessible to non-specialist readers and students of Middle English and Renaissance literature. Selections were chosen for their place in Lydgate's overall narrative, for their importance to literary history, and for their own merit. Summaries between selections convey the mythographic frame within which medieval readers viewed the Troy story. Includes margin notes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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