Lydgate’s Fabula duorum mercatorum and Guy of Warwyk

Edited by Pamela Farvolden

Book cover: Lydgate’s Fabula duorum mercatorum and Guy of Warwyk

Extent: 192 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2016)

ISBN: 9781580442466

8.27 x 10.24 inches

Price: $19.95

In stock

PDF (Published)

(September 2016)

ISBN: 9781580442473

Price: $16.00

A new edition of the Fabula duorum mercatorum, a romance on love and friendship, and Guy of Warwick, a life of England’s heroic pilgrim-knight, presents two of Lydgate’s most interesting poems.


The Fabula Duorum Mercatorum, a romance that in its Boethian sensibility and treatment of love and friendship bears comparison to Chaucer’s great works Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight’s Tale, is one of Lydgate’s most accomplished works. In Guy of Warwick, Lydgate breaks with romance tradition, presenting the heroic English knight-pilgrim and his last great battle against the dread giant Colbrond from an historical point of view.

Acknowledgments Guy of Warwyk 

Introduction

Text 

Explanatory Notes 

Textual Notes 

Fabula duorum mercatorum 

Introduction

Text 

Explanatory Notes 

Notes 

Appendix: Gerald of Cornwall's Guydo de Warwyke

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  • Edited by Pamela Farvolden