Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions - Boffey, Julia (ed.)
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This anthology provides new editions of five 15th-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers.
This anthology presents new editions of five English dream vision poems from the fifteenth century, exploring issues of love, philosophy, governance, life at court, and some of the anxieties of writing in a newly-forged English tradition. The texts are fully glossed and annotated, with introductions discussing their contexts and critical history.

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This anthology provides new editions of five 15th-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers.
This anthology presents new editions of five English dream vision poems from the fifteenth century, exploring issues of love, philosophy, governance, life at court, and some of the anxieties of writing in a newly-forged English tradition. The texts are fully glossed and annotated, with introductions discussing their contexts and critical history.
Autorenporträt
Julia Boffey is Reader in Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is an established editor of medieval texts, and her publications include: Ed. Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages (D. S. Brewer 1985) Ed. with J. Cowen Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry (Kings College London 1991) Ed. with P. King London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages (Westfield College London 1995) Ed. with J. Scatterford Texts and Contexts: Essays from the Early Book Society (Four Courts Press 1997) Ed. with A. S. G. Edwards The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'the Kingis Quair' (D. S. Bewer 1997)