Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor

The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture.

List of contents

Editorial Introduction
Gui de Warewic at Home and Abroad: A Hero for Europe - Judith Weiss
Gui de Warewic in its Manuscript Context - Marianne Ailes
Guy of Warwick as a Translation - Ivana Djordjevic
From Gui to Guy: The Fashioning of a Popular Romance - Rosalind Field
The Manuscripts and Texts of the Middle English Guy of Warwick - Alison Wiggins
The Speculum Guy de Warwick and Lydgate's Guy of Warwick: The Non-Romance Middle English Tradition - A S G Edwards
An Exemplary Life: Guy of Warwick as Medieval Culture-Hero - Robert Rouse
The Visual History of Guy of Warwick - David Griffith
`In her owne persone semly and bewtwus': Representing Women in Stories of Guy of Warwick - Martha W. Driver
Of Dragons and Saracens: Guy and Bevis in Early Print Illustration - Sian Echard
Guy of Warwick and The Faerie Queene, Book II: Chivalry Through the Ages - Andrew King
Guy as Early Modern English Hero - Helen Cooper

Product details

• Authors: Alison Wiggins
• Assisted by: Rosalind Field (Editor), Alison Wiggins (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2007
• EAN: 9781843841258
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-125-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies