Amis and Amiloun
Author: MacEdward Leach
Publisher: Early English Text Society
Published: 2001-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780859919371
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Nine Medieval Romances of Magic
Author: Marijane Osborn
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2010-03-05
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1551119978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance
Author: Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1843842211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
English Medieval Romance
Author: William Raymond Johnston Barron
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.
Performance and the Middle English Romance
Author: Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1843843234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0199679789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the "popular culture" of their day, in fact such texts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility.
Landscape in Middle English Romance
Author: Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1108913091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
Author: Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-06-22
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521556873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
Author: Laura Ashe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1843842122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
Christianity and Romance in Medieval England
Author: Rosalind Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 184384219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.
