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Author : Rhiannon Purdie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843841623
A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated.
Author : Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843238
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Author : Susanna Fein,Elizabeth Melick,David Raybin
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580444125
This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances center on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.
Author : Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842217
"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
Author : Michael Staveley Cichon,Rhiannon Purdie
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842606
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them. The contexts explored here include traditional literary features such as genre and rhetorical technique and literary-cultural questions of authorship, transmission and readership; but they also extend to such broader intellectual and social contexts as medieval understandings of geography, the physiology of swooning, or the efficacy of baptism. A framing context for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall's prefatory essay, in which he revisits his seminal 1965 article on the development of Middle English romance. Rhiannon Purdie is Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews; Michael Cichon is Associate Professor of English at St Thomas More College in the University of Saskatchewan. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Michael Cichon, Nicholas Perkins, Marianne Ailes, John A. Geck, Phillipa Hardman, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Judith Weiss, Robert Rouse, Yin Liu, Emily Wingfield, Rosalind Field
Author : Nicholas Perkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843900
Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.
Author : Jamie McKinstry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844174
An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191669217
Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.
Author : John H Chandler
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781580442381
The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.
Author : Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782041757
Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur' have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II's deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author draws attention to the specific circumstances in which Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry Lovelich's 'History of the Holy Grail' and Malory's 'Morte' were read in fifteenth-century England. In the case of the pious romances this implies a study of their reception long after their original composition or translation centuries earlier; in Lovelich's case, an examination of metropolitan culture leads to an opening of the discussion to French romance models as well as English chronicle writing.
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108807678
This new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well as its relationship to the Mediterranean world, race, gender and the emotions, among many other topics. Providing fresh perspectives on the first pan-European literary movement, essays range across a broad geographical area, including England, France, Italy, Germany and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as a varied linguistic spectrum, including Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish. Exploring the celebration of chivalric ideals and courtly refinements, the volume excavates the tensions and traumas lying beneath decorous surface appearances. An introduction, bibliography of texts and translations as well as chapter-by-chapter reading lists complete this essential guide.
Author : Amy Noelle Vines
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842750
A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
Author : Raluca L. Radulescu,Cory James Rushton
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842705
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Author : Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110432466
The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.
Author : Phillipa Hardman,Marianne Ailes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844723
The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.
