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Author: Graham Drake Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications ISBN: 1580444180 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories, dragons, and all sorts of marvels and adventures. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, these works provide an excellent cross section of the wonderful world of Middle English romances featuring the escapades of their fantastical countrymen.
Author: Graham Drake Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications ISBN: 1580444180 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories, dragons, and all sorts of marvels and adventures. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, these works provide an excellent cross section of the wonderful world of Middle English romances featuring the escapades of their fantastical countrymen.
Author: Harriet Hudson Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications ISBN: 1580444369 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, and Sir Tryamour are important works in a major literary development of the fourteenth century: the flourishing of Middle English popular romance. These four narratives were among the most popular; all survive in multiple manuscripts and continued to circulate in prints through the sixteenth century. All were composed in the northeast Midlands in the fifty years between 1325 and 1375, and they appear together in several manuscripts. The tale the romances tell-of exiled queens, orphaned children, and penitent fathers-was one of the most prevalent medieval stories. Sometimes called the Constance/Eustace legend (after two well-known pious versions), its influence can be seen in numerous romances.
Author: Andrew M. Richmond Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108913091 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 542
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Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.
Author: Judith Elizabeth Weiss Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) ISBN: 9780866983921 Category : English literature Languages : en Pages : 0
Author: Harriet E. Hudson Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, and Sir Tryamour are important works in a major literary development of the fourteenth century: the flourishing of Middle English popular romance. These four narratives were among the most popular; all survive in multiple manuscripts and continued to circulate in prints through the sixteenth century. All were composed in the northeast Midlands in the fifty years between 1325 and 1375, and they appear together in several manuscripts. The tale the romances tell-of exiled queens, orphaned children, and penitent fathers-was one of the most prevalent medieval stories. Sometimes called the Constance/Eustace legend (after two well-known pious versions), its influence can be seen in numerous romances.
Author: Leticia Alvarez Recio Publisher: ISBN: 1487539002 Category : LITERARY CRITICISM Languages : en Pages : 297
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"This collection of original essays examines the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation and explores the impact of that literary corpus on Elizabethan culture as well as its connections with other contemporary genres such as native English fiction, chronicle, and epistolary writing. The essays focus mainly on Anthony Munday's work as the leading translator as well as the two main Spanish sixteenth-century cycles-Le., Amadis and Palmerin-from a variety of critical approaches, including cultural studies, book history and reception, material history, translation, post-colonial criticism, and early modern Qender studies."--
Author: Clive Staples Lewis Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780151329168 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 166
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Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
Author: Marijane Osborn Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 1551119978 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 263
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In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.
Author: Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199248869 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 559
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The great story motifs of romance were transmitted directly from the Middle Ages to the age of print in an abundance of editions. Spenser and Shakespeare assumed a familiarity with them and therefore exploited it, with new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences
Author: Graham Drake
Author: Graham Drake
Author: Harriet Hudson
Author: Andrew M. Richmond
Author: Judith Elizabeth Weiss
Author: Harriet E. Hudson
Author: Leticia Alvarez Recio
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Author: Robert Martin Adams
Author: Marijane Osborn
Author: Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper