The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.

List of contents

Introduction - Laura Ashe
The Fairies in the Fountain: Promiscuous Liaisons - Neil Cartlidge
Saracens and other Saxons: Using, Misusing and Confusing Names in Gui de Warewic and Guy of Warwick - Ivana Djordjevic
The Exploitation of Ideas of Pilgrimage and Sainthood in Gui de Warewic - Judith Weiss
Chanson de Geste as Romance in England - Melissa Furrow
Patterns of Availability and Demand in Middle English Translations de romanz - Rosalind Field
Reading a Christian-Saracen Debate in Fifteenth-Century Middle English Charlemagne Romance: The Case of Turpines Story - Diane Vincent
Subtle Crafts: Magic and Exploitation in Medieval English Romance - Corinne Saunders
Meeting Grounds: Gardens in Middle English Romance - Arlyn Diamond
'Als for the worthynes of þe romance': Exploitation of Genre in the Buik of Kyng Alexander the Conquerour - Anna Caughey
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Limits of Chivalry - Laura Ashe

Product details

• Authors: Laura Ashe
• Assisted by: Laura Ashe (Editor), Ivana Djordjevic (Editor), Judith Weiss (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2010
• EAN: 9781843842125
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-212-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism