John Trevisa's Information Age John Trevisa's Information Age
Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

John Trevisa's Information Age

Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400

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Publisher Description

Explores reference books in the medieval period including informational texts, encyclopedias, histories, and manuals, with particular attention to John Trevisa's translations and how these influenced the form and development of vernacular English literature.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
20 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SIZE
9.5
MB

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