Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages

Edited by Warren Ginsberg

Book cover: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages

Extent: 92 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 1992)

ISBN: 9781879288263

7.01 x 10 inches

Price: $14.95

In stock

PDF (Published)

(October 1992)

ISBN: 9781580444019

Price: $12.00

This edition contains two poems valuable to the study of satire of social abuses in the fourteenth century: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. The editions include notes, glosses, an introduction, and a glossary, making them accessible to beginning and advanced students in Middle English alike.


This edition contains two poems valuable to the study of satire of social abuses in the fourteenth century: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Both combine two genres of medieval poetry: dream visions and poetic debates. As the editor observes, the poem’s perspectives are truly dizzying: on the one hand, economics, politics, ethics and social relations are seen as an interrelated set of universal, timeless principles; on the other, they appear as actual, contingent conditions that have resulted from specific acts in history. The editions include notes, glosses, an introduction, and a glossary, making them accessible to beginning and advanced students in Middle English alike.

Preface
Introduction

Wynnere and Wastoure

The Parlement of the Thre Ages

Textual Notes
Glossary
  • Edited by Warren Ginsberg