Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages

Download or read book Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages written by Warren Ginsberg and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.