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As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginni...Lees meer
First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis, the most popular Middle English romance. Sir Bevis of Hampton is one of the most widespread...Lees meer
The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the cultural unity of romance and its many vari...Lees meer
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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...Lees meer
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 reas...Lees meer
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 herita...Lees meer
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 l...Lees meer
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 romanc...Lees meer
Naming and namelessness are among the major themes of medieval romance. Because the genre is so difficult to define, scholars have viewed romance as c...Lees meer
Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morall...Lees meer
Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned ...Lees meer
Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morall...Lees meer
A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated. Tail-rhyme romance unite...Lees meer