Four Romances of England

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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444180
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Four Romances of England by : Graham Drake

Download or read book Four Romances of England written by Graham Drake and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories, dragons, and all sorts of marvels and adventures. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, these works provide an excellent cross section of the wonderful world of Middle English romances featuring the escapades of their fantastical countrymen.

Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843841738
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition by : Jennifer Fellows

Download or read book Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition written by Jennifer Fellows and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis, the most popular Middle English romance.

Medieval Insular Romance

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915977
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Insular Romance by : Judith Elizabeth Weiss

Download or read book Medieval Insular Romance written by Judith Elizabeth Weiss and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods. These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late 16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate further research on how insular romances were transferred between vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider Lovelich's Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the poet's contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE, HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, 'Romance in Medieval England' conference.

Guy of Warwick

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843841258
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Guy of Warwick by : Alison Wiggins

Download or read book Guy of Warwick written by Alison Wiggins and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle English romance right through to the plays and prints of the early modern period and Spenser's Faerie Queene, including the visual tradition in manuscript illustration and material culture as well as the intersection of the legend with local and national history. This volume addresses important questions regarding the continuities and remaking of romance material, and therelation between life and literature. Topics discussed are sensitive to current critical concerns and include translation, reception, magnate ambition, East-West relations, the construction of "Englishness" and national identity, and the literary value of "popular" romance. ALISON WIGGINS is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow; ROSALIND FIELD is Reader in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Note on ebook images: Due to limited rights we are unable to make all images in this book available in the ebook version. If you'd like to purchase the ebook regardless, please email us on [email protected] to obtain a PDF of the images. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. CONTRIBUTORS: JUDITH WEISS, MARIANNE AILES, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, ALISON WIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, DAVID GRIFFITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, ANDREW KING, HELEN COOPER

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384270X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance by : Raluca L. Radulescu

Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance written by Raluca L. Radulescu and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.

Medieval Children

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300097542
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Children by : Nicholas Orme

Download or read book Medieval Children written by Nicholas Orme and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.

The Taymouth Hours

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis The Taymouth Hours by : Kathryn A. Smith

Download or read book The Taymouth Hours written by Kathryn A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. Smith traces the manuscript's origin to Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III, and Edward's sister, the thirteen-year-old Eleanor of Woodstock.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613592
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by : Elaine Treharne

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English written by Elaine Treharne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

Four Middle English Romances

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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Four Middle English Romances by : Harriet E. Hudson

Download or read book Four Middle English Romances written by Harriet E. Hudson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, and Sir Tryamour are important works in a major literary development of the fourteenth century: the flourishing of Middle English popular romance. These four narratives were among the most popular; all survive in multiple manuscripts and continued to circulate in prints through the sixteenth century. All were composed in the northeast Midlands in the fifty years between 1325 and 1375, and they appear together in several manuscripts. The tale the romances tell-of exiled queens, orphaned children, and penitent fathers-was one of the most prevalent medieval stories. Sometimes called the Constance/Eustace legend (after two well-known pious versions), its influence can be seen in numerous romances.

The Red Romance Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Book Synopsis The Red Romance Book by : Andrew Lang

Download or read book The Red Romance Book written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zöopedagogies

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632622
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Zöopedagogies by : Bonnie J. Erwin

Download or read book Zöopedagogies written by Bonnie J. Erwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress. They are learners, taught by an unexpected set of teachers: non-human animals including horses, hawks, lions, and the various quarry of the hunt. These "creature teachers" show humans how to be more perfectly human—how to love, fight, survive, and live according to medieval culture’s highest ideals. Zöopedagogies explores the pedagogical role of animals in medieval romance, a genre whose fantastical elements enable animal characters to behave in ways inspired by, but not limited to their real-world actions. Situated at the intersection of animal studies and medieval studies, Zöopedagogies claims medieval roots for posthumanism by telling a new story about the role of animals in constructing Western culture. Bonnie Erwin brings together a diverse array of texts, including chivalric romances like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and popular romances like Bevis of Hampton and Richard Coer de Lyon. She puts these into conversation with medieval texts on natural science, horsemanship, hawking, and hunting that inform the representation of creatures who teach. In so doing, she reveals a rich and nuanced sense of animals as participants in interspecies collaborative culture-making.

The Middle English Breton Lays

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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Middle English Breton Lays by : Anne Laskaya

Download or read book The Middle English Breton Lays written by Anne Laskaya and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917612
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by : Phillipa Hardman

Download or read book The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance written by Phillipa Hardman and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity.

Boundaries in Medieval Romance

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841555
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Book Synopsis Boundaries in Medieval Romance by : Neil Cartlidge

Download or read book Boundaries in Medieval Romance written by Neil Cartlidge and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.

Forest of Montalbano

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)

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Book Synopsis Forest of Montalbano by : Catherine Cuthbertson

Download or read book Forest of Montalbano written by Catherine Cuthbertson and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474519
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades by : Anthony Bale

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades written by Anthony Bale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845210
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe by : Lydia Zeldenrust

Download or read book The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe written by Lydia Zeldenrust and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of M lusine - 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 the first to consider how this romance developed from a local legend to European bestseller, analysing versions in French, German, Castilian, Dutch, and English. It addresses questions on how to study medieval literature from a European perspective, moving beyond national canons, and reading M lusine's bodily mutability as a metaphor for how the romance itself moves and transforms across borders. It also analyses key changes to the romance's content, form, and material presentation - including its images - and traces how the people who produced and consumed this romance shaped its international transmission and spread. The author shows how M lusine's character is adapted within each local context, while also uncovering previously unknown connections between the different branches of this multilingual tradition. Moving beyond established paradigms of separate national traditions, manuscript versus print, and medieval versus Renaissance literature, the book integrates literary analysis with art historical and book historical approaches. LYDIA ZELDENRUST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.