Caxton's Book of Curtesye Hardback
Edited by F.J. Furnivall
Part of the Early English Text Society Extra Series series
Hardback
Description
An edition of Caxton's delightful Book of Curtesye, originally "printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A.D." As well as the usual instructions on good manners and behaviour (Lose not your gyrdel / sittyng at your mete - Don't undo your girdle at the table), this guide includes a charming and clearly heartfelt section advising which poets should be read, with Chaucer, Lydgate, Gower and Occleve being judged the finest and most important.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:01/02/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859919500
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:01/02/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859919500