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Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

English · Hardback

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The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts.

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Introduction: Romance and its Medieval Contexts - Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon
The Pleasure of Popular Romance: A Prefatory Essay - Derek Pearsall
Representations of Peasant Speech: Some Literary and Social Contexts for The Taill of Rauf Coilyear - Nancy Mason Bradbury
'As ye have brewd, so shal ye drink': the Proverbial Context of Eger and Grime - Michael Cichon
Ekphrasis and Narrative in Emaré and Sir Eglamour of Artois - Nicholas Perkins
What's in a name? Anglo-Norman Romances or Chansons de geste? - Marianne Ailes
'For Goddes love, sir, mercy!': Recontextualising the Modern Critical Text of Floris and Blancheflor - John A. Geck
Roland in England: Contextualising the Middle English Song of Roland - Phillipa Hardman
Romance Baptisms and Theological Contexts in The King of Tars and Sir Ferumbras - Siobhain Bly Calkin
Modern and Medieval Views on Swooning: the Literary and Medical Contexts of Fainting in Romance - Judith Weiss
Walking [between] the Lines: Romance as Itinerary/Map - Robert Rouse
Romances of Continuity in the English Rous Roll - Yin Liu
'Ex libris domini Duncani Campbell de Glenwrquhay/miles': The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour in the household of Sir Duncan Campbell, seventh laird of Glenorchy - Emily Wingfield
'Pur les francs homes amender': Clerical Authors and the Thirteenth-Century Context of Historical Romance - Rosalind Field

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Rhiannon Purdie, Michael Cichon

Product details

Authors Rhiannon Purdie
Assisted by Michael Cichon (Editor), Rhiannon Purdie (Editor)
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 17.03.2011
 
EAN 9781843842606
ISBN 978-1-84384-260-6
No. of pages 208
Dimensions 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
Weight 499 g
Series Studies in Medieval Romance
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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