Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 14
• The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval... Lees meer

Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance

Corinne Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 13
• The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are constantly present: in otherwordly encounters, in the strange adventures ... 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. Medieval romance is usually... Lees meer

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 10
• Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental impor... 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

Romance Rewritten

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 22
• The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the cultural unity of romance and its many vari... 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

Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great

Venetia Bridges

• Hardcover | Engels, Frans, Latijn | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 20
• How was Alexander the Great - controversial king, conqueror, explorer, and pupil of Aristotle, the subject of histories, romances, epic poetry, satire... 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 Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance

Carol F Heffernan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 1
• The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the l... Lees meer

Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance

Amy N Vines

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 15
• The cultural and social power of women in the Middle Ages is perhaps hard to trace, with evidence for it scarce. This book argues that medieval romanc... Lees meer

Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Romance | nr. 24
• Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned ... 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