Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 14
• The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative s... Lees meer

Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance

Corinne Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 13
• The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first fu... Lees meer

Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory

Jamie McKinstry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 19
• 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. I... Lees meer

Expectations of Romance

Melissa Furrow

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 11
• What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study. An impo... Lees meer

The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance

Robert Rouse

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 3
• Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature. As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and g... Lees meer

Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance

Hannah Piercy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 25
• This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. JOINT WINNER: 2024 Swiss As... Lees meer

Boundaries in Medieval Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 6
• A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, ca... Lees meer

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 10
• A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms. Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread... Lees meer

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance
• A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms. Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread... Lees meer

The Sea and Medieval English Literature

Sebastian Sobecki

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 5
• A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As t... Lees meer

Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 8
• First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis, the most popular Middle English romance. Sir Bevis of Hampton is one of the most widespread... Lees meer

Romance Rewritten

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 22
• New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle English... Lees meer

Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great

Venetia Bridges

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 20
• An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe. How was Alexander the Great - cont... Lees meer

Performance and the Middle English Romance

Linda Marie Zaerr

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 17
• An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval... Lees meer

The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 12
• Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance. As one of the most important, influent... Lees meer

Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 4
• The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the ... Lees meer

The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance

Carol F Heffernan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 1
• A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous popular metrical romances. The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and mediev... Lees meer

Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance

Amy N Vines

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 15
• A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance. The cultural and social power of women in the Mi... Lees meer

Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance

Jane Bliss

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 7
• A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance. Naming and namelessness are among the ... Lees meer

Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 16
• Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs o... Lees meer

Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 24
• New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission. Romance was the most popular secular l... Lees meer

Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 16
• Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs o... Lees meer

Anglicising Romance

Rhiannon Purdie

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 9
• A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated. Tail-rhyme romance unite... Lees meer