Amis and Amiloun
Author | : MacEdward Leach |
Publisher | : Early English Text Society |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859919371 |
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Author | : MacEdward Leach |
Publisher | : Early English Text Society |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859919371 |
Author | : Michael Johnston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199679789 |
showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the "popular culture" of their day, in fact such texts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility.
Author | : Marijane Osborn |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2010-03-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1551119978 |
In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.
Author | : William Raymond Johnston Barron |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.
Author | : Rosalind Field |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 184384219X |
The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.
Author | : Neil Cartlidge |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843841555 |
A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.
Author | : Roberta L. Krueger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2000-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521556873 |
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
Author | : Linda Marie Zaerr |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843843234 |
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 romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Author | : Nicholas Perkins |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843843900 |
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 corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance; poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire. NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,
Author | : Andrew M. Richmond |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108913091 |
Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.