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Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance
Inbunden, 2003
1434 kr
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A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous popular metrical romances.The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the literature in its historical context and thereby offering …
Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance
Av Robert Rouse
Inbunden, 2005
986 kr
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Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature.As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was important in the construction of a post-Conquest English society that was both aware of, and placed great …
Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor
Av Alison Wiggins, Rosalind Field m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1512 kr
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The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture.Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy of …
Sea and Medieval English Literature
Inbunden, 2007
1437 kr
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A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography.As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings …
Boundaries in Medieval Romance
Inbunden, 2008
1437 kr
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A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that …
Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance
Av Jane Bliss
Inbunden, 2008
1512 kr
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A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.Naming and namelessness are among the major themes of medieval romance. Because the genre is so difficult to define, scholars have viewed romance as containing a critical number of themes; …
Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Av Raluca L Radulescu, Cory James Rushton
Inbunden, 2009
986 kr
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A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms.Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the …
Expectations of Romance
The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England
Inbunden, 2009
1498 kr
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What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance. Professor ROBERT ROUSE, …
Exploitations of Medieval Romance
Av Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjevic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1423 kr
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Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and …
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance
Inbunden, 2010
1455 kr
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The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject.The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are constantly present: in otherwordly encounters, …
Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
Av Rhiannon Purdie, Michael Cichon
Inbunden, 2011
1437 kr
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The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts.The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only …
Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Av Raluca L Radulescu, Cory James Rushton
Häftad, 2011
346 kr
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A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms.Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the …
Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance
Av Amy N. Vines
Inbunden, 2011
1423 kr
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A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.The cultural and social power of women in the Middle Ages is perhaps hard to trace, with evidence for it scarce. This book argues that medieval romances provide a central, but under-explored, source …
Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance
Inbunden, 2012
1498 kr
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Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance.Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous, antisocial or even downright sinister their …
Performance and the Middle English Romance
Inbunden, 2012
1498 kr
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An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner.Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English …
Medieval Romance and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2015
1498 kr
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Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or …
Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory
Inbunden, 2015
1512 kr
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An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.In Middle English romances many memories are created, stored, forgotten, and rediscovered by both the characters and audience; such memory work is not, …
Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance
Häftad, 2018
410 kr
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Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance.Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous, antisocial or even downright sinister their …
Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great
Transnational Texts in England and France
Inbunden, 2018
1498 kr
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An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.How was Alexander the Great - controversial king, conqueror, explorer, and pupil of Aristotle, the subject of histories, romances, epic poetry, satires, and sermons in most of the …
Romance Rewritten
The Evolution of Middle English Romance. A Tribute to Helen Cooper
Av Elizabeth Archibald, Megan G Leitch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1512 kr
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New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance.The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the cultural unity of romance and its many variations, reiterations and reimaginings, including its contexts …
Transmission of Medieval Romance
Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints
Av Ad Putter, Judith A. Jefferson
Inbunden, 2018
678 kr
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The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms.Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscripts and early print. The essays collected here deal with the textual transmission of medieval romances …
Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe
Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts
Inbunden, 2020
1498 kr
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The legend of Mélusine examined in a pan-European context.Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Mélusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-monstrous sons are the ancestor of several European noble houses. This study is …
Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance
Av Victoria Flood, Megan G Leitch
Inbunden, 2022
1455 kr
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New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this …
Women and Magic in Medieval Romance
Genre, Intertextuality and Power
Inbunden, 2025
1423 kr
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Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular late medieval English romances.The female characters in Middle English romances with particular power and agency are often portrayed as …
Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire
Häftad, 2023
437 kr
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This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire.JOINT WINNER: 2024 Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Book Prize. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality …
Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance
Av Lucy Brookes
Inbunden, 2025
1423 kr
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Offers a nuanced reading of character and subjectivity in medieval romance via an exploration of its conventions.Medieval romances can be characterised by their formulaic motifs, predictable plots, and "stock" figures and character types. This book offers a fresh perspective on these conventions, …
Motherhood and its Spaces in Medieval Romance
Inbunden, 2026
1423 kr
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Discusses the spaces occupied and used by mothers in French and English medieval romance of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.Mothers have tended to be overlooked in romance scholarship, in favour of fantastical adventures, courtly love stories, and connections with historical events. Yet they …
