Euphues
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Euphues, a prose romance by
Lyly, of which the first part,
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, was published in 1578, and the second,
Euphues and His England, 1580. The plot of each is very slender and little but a peg on which to hang discourses, conversations, and letters, mainly on the subject of love. The work is largely based on North's
Diall of Princes.
Euphues is famous for its peculiar style, to which it has given the name ‘Euphuism’. Its principal characteristics are the excessive use of antithesis, which is pursued regardless of sense, and emphasized by alliteration and other devices; and of allusions to historical and mythological personages and to natural history drawn from such writers as
Plutarch,
Pliny, and
Erasmus. Sir W.
Scott satirized Euphuism in the character of Sir Piercie Shafton in
The Monastery and C.
Kingsley defended
Euphues in
Westward Ho!
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'The Cursor Mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; 'The Cursor Mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts...xii + 193 pp. The Cursor Mundi is a biblical history written...3 is concerned with the Cursor-poet's sources and their...among scholars of the Cursor Mundi about the place of Peter...
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Open Syllable Lengthening before /t/ and /k/ in the language of Cursor Mundi--the evidence from rhyme vowels.
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 8/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...operation are visible in Cursor Mundi, itself a Middle English...English poems, Cursor Mundi seems to have been somewhat...concluding remarks. 2. Cursor Mundi: General information...the original of Cursor Mundi came into existence towards...
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The `Cursor mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; John J. Thompson, The `Cursor mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts, Medium AEvum Monographs, NS...pp. ISBN 0-905570-12-7. 11.00 [pounds sterling]. Cursor mundi is mainly known these days as a text useful for showing philology...
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Eclipse of empire?; perceptions of the Western Empire and its rulers in late-medieval France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 479 words
; ...Brepols Publishers 2007 415 pages $116.00 Hardcover Cursor mundi; v.1 JC374 This publication is the first volume in the Cursor Mundi series, which will present multi- and inter-disciplinary...
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Sian Echard and Stephen Partridge, eds. The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the first group of essays evaluates the editing of the Cursor Mundi, Anglo-Norman texts, and Malory. Anne Klinck compares...consider Richard Morris's 19th-century edition of the Cursor Mundi. While Morris's edition included several parallel...
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Reading romance in late medieval England: the case of the Middle English Ipomedon.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...rejection and later condemnation. The author of the Cursor Mundi, a clerical text composed in English for the edification...trick with which to attract more adherents, as the Cursor Mundi aires at conveying the Church's message more accessibly...
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Albeit a conjunction, yet it is a clause: a counter-example to unidirectionality hypothesis? (1).
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...v.) and is first attested in the 14th century (Cursor Mundi, Chaucer, Gower): (1) Al be it pai be theues all...breper elleuen Pat ham, pai neuend me pe yongeist nam (Cursor Mundi 4978 a 1340) (2) However, there are some earlier...
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Der Weltkaiser der Endzeit: Entstehung, Wandel und Wirkung einer tausendjahrigen Weissagung. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Arthur. The reflection of the Emperor-prophecies in the Cursor mundi is a good example, but the precise relationship to Pseudo...closer scrutiny (Gog and Magog become place names in the Cursor -- `a land pat hight magog', line 22332). The use...
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Garipzanov, Ildar H., Patrick J. Geary, and Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, eds, Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, eds, Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe (Cursor Mundi 5), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008; hardback; pp. 266; 10 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. 55.00 [euro]; ISBN...
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Text and Language: `Beowulf', Chaucer and Related Works. (Shorter Notices).
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2002; 434 words
; ...by Michiko Ogura, on ond spelled out in the Beowulf manuscript; by Yoshihiro Shinoda, on rare words in the Cotton Cursor mundi; by Tsuyoshi Mukai, on De Worde's 1498 edition of Malory's Morte Darthur as a witness to a `best text'; and...
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Cursor Mundi
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Cursor Mundi. An early English poem on the history of the world, probably dating from the early 14th cent. The first six books extend from the Creation to the life of Christ and the Apostles, and the seventh deals with the Last Judgement.
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Middle English literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sadness—of change, loss, and death; and the cursor mundi, which harps on the vanity of human grandeur. A 15,000-line 13th-century English poem, the Cursor Mundi, retells human history (i.e., the medieval version...
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