The Transmission of Medieval Romance - Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints

The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms.

List of contents

Introduction: Forms of Transmission of Medieval Romance - Ad Putter and Judith Jefferson
King Orphius and Sir Orfeo, Scotland and England, Memory and Manuscript - Rhiannon Purdie
The Metre of the Tale of Gamelyn - Derek Pearsall
Rhyme Royal and Romance - Elizabeth Robertson
The Singing of Middle English Romance: Stanza Forms and Contrafacta - Ad Putter
Deluxe Copies of Middle English Romance: Scribes and Book Artists - Carol Meale
Is Cheuelere Assigne an Alliterative Poem? - Thorlac Turville-Petre
Language Tests for the Identification of Middle English Genre - Donka Minkova
The Problem of John Metham's Prosody - Nicholas Myklebust
The Printed Transmission of Medieval Romance from William Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde, 1473-1535 - Jordi Sanchez-Marti
Compiling Sacred and Secular: Sir Orfeo and the Otherworlds of Medieval Miscellanies - Michelle De Groot
The Woodville Women, Eleanor Haute, and British Library Royal MS 14 E III - Rebecca Lyons

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Ad Putter, Judith A. Jefferson

Summary

The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms.

Product details

• Authors: Ad Putter
• Assisted by: Judith A Jefferson (Editor), Judith A. Jefferson (Editor), Ad Putter (Editor), Professor Ad Putter (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2018
• EAN: 9781843845102
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-510-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 162 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 686 g
• Illustrations: 7 colour, 12 b/w, 9 line illus.
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics