... damaged texts incomplete texts primers soiling of texts medieval prayer books books of hours John Northwood Throckmorton family West Midlands Worcestershire manuscript miscellanies Middle English literature manuscript decoration This chapter explores London, British Library...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of English as an academic subject in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how the early degree courses in English literature at a number of English universities were characterised by attempts to make the subject fulfil the disciplinary criteria that it should...

...This chapter examines the history and developments in the study of middle English literature in Great Britain during the twentieth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century the newly founded British Academy contained a group of Fellows who had made distinguished contributions to the study...

... literacy in English, and evaluates the impact of Pastoral Care on English literature. King Alfred mass education English literacy Pastoral Care English literature British Academy Some time in the 890s King Alfred sent a letter to his bishops apparently announcing two major...

...Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and more influential in English literature than Dante. His Italian love lyrics constituted the major influence on European love poetry for at least two...

... relativity specious present photography ontology decline empire eternal time thermodynamics solar time Tennyson Alfred theology astronomy First World War Second World War state nation state English Literature time-travel H. G. Wells literary culture narrative temporality Fiction...