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Sir Torrent of Portingale

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Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with action-packed tales of love and adventure. It is a story about the lovers Torrent, a young knight from Portugal, and Desonell, the feisty and resourceful daughter of a tyrannical king. Adventures include fights with dragons, giants, and savage beasts; perilous sea journeys; magic horses and swords; sieges and wars in the Holy Land. This new edition collates the surviving manuscript and print fragments with commentary and notes.


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James Wade is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. He has published Fairies in Medieval Romance as well as articles on romance and related writings.


Summary

TheEnglish tail-rhyme romance Sir Torrent ofPortingale (i.e., Portugal), a preeminent example of popular fiction fromthe end of the Middle Ages.

Product details

Assisted by James (Fellow Wade (Editor), James Wade (Editor)
Authors James Wade
Publisher ISD International - IPSUK
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 31.12.2017
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies
Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry
 
EAN 9781580442503
ISBN 978-1-58044-250-3
Pages 138
Dimensions (packing) 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm
Weight (packing) 346 g
 
Series Teams Middle English Texts
Teams Middle English Texts Series
Teams Middle English Texts Series
 

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