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Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Elliot Kendall, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Nicholas Perkins...

Medieval Romance and Material Culture

English · Hardback

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Description

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.

List of contents

Introduction: The Materiality of Medieval Romance and The Erle of Tolous - Nicholas Perkins
Courtly Culture and Emotional Intelligence in The Romance of Horn - Rosalind Field
Emplaced Reading, or Towards a Spatial Hermeneutic for Medieval Romance - Robert Rouse
Devotional Objects, Saracen Spaces and Miracles in Two Matter of France Romances - Siobhain Bly Calkin
The Werewolf of Wicklow: Shapeshifting and Colonial Identity in the Lai de Melion - Neil Cartlidge
'Ladyes war at thare avowing': The Female Gaze in Late-Medieval Scottish Romance - Anna Caughey
The Evolution of Cooperation in The Avowyng of Arthur - Elliot Kendall
Ritual, Revenge and the Politics of Chess in Medieval Romance -
Adventures in the Bob-and-Wheel Tradition: Narratives and Manuscripts - Ad Putter
Reading King Robert of Sicily's Text(s) and Manuscript Context(s) - Raluca Radulescu
The Circulation of Romances from England in Late-Medieval Ireland - Aisling Byrne
The Image of the Knightly Harper: Symbolism and Resonance - Morgan Dickson
Carving the Folie Tristan: Ivory Caskets as Material Evidence of Textual History - Henrike Manuwald
Romancing the Orient: The Roman d'Alexandre and Marco Polo's Livre du grand Khan in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodl. 264 - Mark Cruse
The Victorian Afterlife of the Thornton Romances - Nancy Mason Bradbury

About the author

Nicholas Perkins

Product details

Authors	Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Elliot Kendall, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter
Assisted by	Nicholas Perkins (Editor), Professor Nicholas Perkins (Editor)
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	19.02.2015

EAN	9781843843900
ISBN	978-1-84384-390-0
No. of pages	311
Dimensions	159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
Weight	828 g
Series	Studies in Medieval Romance Studies in Medieval Romance
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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