Medievalists.net » Robert Mannyng http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Chaucer’s Arthuriana http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/18/chaucers-arthuriana/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/18/chaucers-arthuriana/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:58:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39944 The majority of medieval scholars, including Roger Sherman Loomis, argue that the popularity of the Arthurian legend in England was therefore on the wane in the latter half of the fourteenth century; as a result, the major writers of the period, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, refrained from penning anything beyond the occasional reference to King Arthur and his court.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/18/chaucers-arthuriana/feed/ 0 ‘On Englyssh Tunge Out of Frankys’: Translation and ‘Tourning’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/on-englyssh-tunge-out-of-frankys-translation-and-tourning-in-robert-mannyng%e2%80%99s-handlyng-synne/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/on-englyssh-tunge-out-of-frankys-translation-and-tourning-in-robert-mannyng%e2%80%99s-handlyng-synne/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:13:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17536 ‘On Englyssh Tunge Out of Frankys’: Translation and ‘Tourning’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne Dearnley, Elizabeth Marginalia, Vol. 4, (2005-2006) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract In a poem which clearly describes itself as a translation of the Manuel des Pechiez‘tourned…/On englyssh tonge’, the description of the transfer of ‘sacrylege’ from French into English is one of Handlyng Synne’s most self-consciously […]

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