Legend of Guy of Warwick

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter One: Antecedents for Guy’s Legend; Chapter Two: An Anglo-Norman Hero: The First Guy of Warwick; Chapter Three: Guy: A Fourteenth-Century English Hero; Chapter Four: Late Medieval Adaptations and International Repute; Chapter Five: Renaissance Diversity; Chapter Six: Penny Histories and Eighteenth-Century Antiquarians; Chapter Seven: A Story for Children, Satirists, and Visitors to Warwick; Chapter Eight: Apotheosis and Decline in The Twentieth Century

About the author

Velma Bourgeois Richmond,

Summary

This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production and cultural, political, religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls.

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"This book provides a useful collection of information.." -- Ethnologies"Comprehensive and exhaustive. Velma Richmond is to be commended for completing this large and complex study, and for providing an essential reference for the Guy legend." -- Parergon"Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." -- Choice"A well written, intelligently illustrated book packed with a great deal of information that offers opportunities to scholars to incorporate hitherto neglected material into their understanding of all English literary periods." -- Medium rvum

Product details

• Authors: Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Velma Bourgeois Richmond
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2018
• EAN: 9780415763769
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76376-9
• No. of pages: 632
• Series: Garland Studies in Medieval Literature; Garland Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval