Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.

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List of Contributors
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Introduction: Insular Romance in Translation: New Approaches
Victoria Flood and Megan G. Leitch

1. Romantic Wales: Imagining Wales in Medieval Insular Romance
Helen Fulton

2. 'Something remains which is not open to my understanding': Enigmatic Marvels in Welsh Otherworld Narratives and Latin Arthurian Romance
Jessica J. Lockhart

3. The Supernatural Company in Cultural Translation: Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Roman De La Rose Tradition
Victoria Flood

4. Women and Werewolves: William of Palerne in Three Cultures
Helen Cooper

5. 'Better a valiant squire than a cowardly knight': Gender in Guruns strengleikr (The Lay of Gurun)
Carl Phelpstead

6. 'Vinegar upon Nitre'? Walter Map's Romance of 'Sadius and Galo'
Neil Cartlidge

7. The Three Barriers to Closure in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon and the Middle English Translations
Rebecca Newby

8. Trojan Trash? The Seege or Batayle of Troye and the Learning of 'Popular' Romance
Venetia Bridges

9. Poaching Romance: Fan Fiction Theory and Shared Medieval Narratives
Cory James Rushton

10. Between Epic and Romance: The Matter of England and the Chansons de Geste
Aisling Byrne

11. Geographies of Loss: Cilician Armenia and the Prose Romance of Melusine
Jan Shaw

12. 'All this will not comfort me': Romancing the Ballad in The Squire of Low Degree
Laura Ashe

13. Merchants in Shining Armour: Chivalrous Interventions and Social Mobility in Late Middle English Romance
Megan G. Leitch

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Product details

• Authors: Helen Cooper, Victoria Flood, Helen Fulton, Megan G. Leitch, Jessica J. Lockhart
• Assisted by: Victoria Flood (Editor), Victoria (Royalty Account) Flood (Editor), Megan G Leitch (Editor), Megan G. Leitch (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781843846208
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-620-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 163 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 556 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies