Essays On Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle ages, Thomas Wright, 2 Vol Set

ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE LITERATURE, POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS, AND HISTORY OF England in the Middle ages.
BY THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. F.S.A.
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE, ETC.
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF YRANCE
(ACADÉMIE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES LETTRES.)
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
MOURICE
OF ANTI
LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,
4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE.
1846.

Covers the topics:
ANGLO-SAXON POETRY
ANGLO-NORMAN POETRY
CHANSONS DE GESTE, OR HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
ON PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
ON THE ANGLO-LATIN POETS OF THE TWELETH CENTURY
ABELARD AND THE SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY
ON DR. GRIMM'S GERMAN MYTHOLOGY
ON THE NATIONAL FAIRY MYTHOLOGY OF ENGLAND.
ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF MODERN GREECE
ON FRIAR RUSH AND THE FROLICSOME ELVES
OBSERVATIONS ON DUNLOP'S HISTORY OF FICTION
ON THE HISTORY AND TRANSMISSION OF POPULAR STORIES
ON THE POETRY OF HISTORY
ADVENTURES OF HEREWARD THE SAXON
THE STORY OF EUSTACE THE MONK
THE HISTORY OF FULKE FITZ WARINE
ON THE POPULAR CYCLE OF THE ROBIN HOOD BALLADS
THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND BY THE ANGLO-NORMANS
ON OLD ENGLISH POLITICAL SONGS
ON THE SCOTTISH POET DUNBAR

Privately rebound in navy blue leather with marbled covers and endpapers. A lovely, large bookplate pasted to inside of front covers. 2 Volumes.

Cover edges rubbed with scuffs and discoloration to leather and papers on front covers. Endpapers and front flyleaves soiled. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked.