Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance

Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book.

List of contents

Introduction - Rosalind Field
Thomas and the earl: literary and historical contexts for the Romance of Horn -
`Herkeneth aright': reading Gamelyn for text not context - Stephen Knight
The Wardship Romance: a new methodology -
Middle English romance and the Gesta Romanorum - Diane Speed
Sir Amadance and the undisenchanted bride: the relation of the Middle English romance to the folk tradition of `The Grateful Dead'Dead' - Elizabeth Williams
The Sege of Melayne: a fifteenth-century reading - Phillipa Hardman
Identity, narrative and participation: defining a context for the middle English Charlemagne romances - Robert Warm
Caxton's concept of `Historical Romance' within the context of the crusades: conviction rhetoric and sales strategy - Joerg O Fichte
Chaucerian Minstrelsy: Sir Thopas, Troilus and Criseyde and English metrical romance - Nancy Mason Bradbury
`Redinge of Romance' in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Jeremy Dimmick
The Ide and Olive episode in Lord Berners's Huon of Burdeux - Elizabeth Archibald
The strange history of Valentine and Orson - Helen Cooper

About the author

Rosalind Field

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Field
• Assisted by: Rosalind Field (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.1999
• EAN: 9780859915533
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-553-3
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, History - General History