Medieval English Lyrics: 1200-1400 – Thomas Duncan

Brochura 14x21cm. 266 páginas. Está em ótimo estado de conservação. Capa e lombada com marca de uso e vincos. Está com tonalidades amarelas devido a ação do tempo. ” This volume opens with the first lyrics in English to celebrate love as romantic devotion to a woman. Some Chaucerian and all other Middle English love lyrics from before 1400 are included. Devotional lyrics portraying the tenderness of the later medieval response to Christ as lover and beloved and to the Virgin Mary are fully represented along with lyrics on penitential and moral themes and miscellaneous lyrics such as drinking and dancing songs, ballads, satires and poems of wit, humour and sexual innuendo.