Turpines Story - A Middle English Translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle

Zusatztext ...a meticulously edited text, with extensive commentary Klappentext Turpines Story is a unique English version of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle, a legendary account of Charlemagne's wars in Spain, and one of the most popular texts of the Middle Ages. This recently discovered fifteenth-century translation is one of the earliest prose romances written in English, and it testifies to a distinct and flourishing insular literary tradition concerning Charlemagne. Identification of the original owner of the sole surviving manuscript locates the text both in the national politics of the Wars of the Roses, and in the regional litigation of the 'Great Berkeley Lawsuit'. It has not been published before. Stephen H. A. Shepherd is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Zusammenfassung This unique Middle English text, not previously published, of the immensely popular story of Charlemagne's Spanish wars and defeat at Roncevaux, has only recently been discovered. It is one of the earliest prose romances, pre-dating Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Artur by more than a decade. This version testifies to a distinctive British tradition of the Charlemagne story. The manuscript's history locates the text in Lancastrian and regional politics of the mid-fifteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Shepherd
• Assisted by: Stephen Shepherd (Editor), Stephen H a Shepherd (Editor), Stephen H. A. Shepherd (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2005
• EAN: 9780197223253
• ISBN: 978-0-19-722325-3
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Early English Text Society Original Series; Early English Text Society Ori; Early English Text Society Original Series; Early English Text Society Ori
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies