Product Description: This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, materials...read more

Product Description: Now, for the first time ever, there is a study of the poetry of Charles of Orleans that considers together the English, French, and Latin versions of this large and important body of lyric. Charles was a captive in England following the battle of Agincourt, pulled literally from beneath a heap of bodies and armor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)