Middle English Romances

Author : S. H. A. Shepherd
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393966077
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle English Romances written by S. H. A. Shepherd and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.

Author : Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843234
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance and the Middle English Romance written by Linda Marie Zaerr and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108913091
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape in Middle English Romance written by Andrew M. Richmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136832246
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals) written by Dieter Mehl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.

Author : Marijane Osborn
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551119978
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Medieval Romances of Magic written by Marijane Osborn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : MacEdward Leach
Publisher : Early English Text Society
ISBN 13 : 9780859919371
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amis and Amiloun written by MacEdward Leach and published by Early English Text Society. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marijane Osborn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066559
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romancing the Goddess written by Marijane Osborn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take three exciting medieval romances, translate them - two for the first time - into modern English verse, and you'll have only part of Marijane Osborn's Romancing the Goddess. Osborn introduces and translates the three tales, all dealing with women cast adrift upon the northern and Mediterranean seas, then shows how the stories forge a hitherto missing link with worship of a savior goddess in the distant past.

Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317885554
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance written by Ad Putter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.

Author : Harriet E. Hudson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Middle English Romances written by Harriet E. Hudson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Walter Wadiak
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268101213
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Economy written by Walter Wadiak and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities. Essential to this literary evolution is the concept and practice of “noble” gift-giving, which binds together knights and commoners in ways that both echo and displace the notorious violence of many of these stories. Wadiak begins with the assumption that “romance” names a particular kind of chivalric fantasy to which violence is central, just as violence was instrumental to the formation and identity of the medieval warrior aristocracy. A traditional view is that the violence of romance stories is an expression of aristocratic privilege wielded by a military caste in its relations with one another as well as with those lower on the social scale. In this sense, violence is the aristocratic gift that underwrites and reaffirms the feudal power of a privileged group, with the noble gift performing the symbolic violence on which romance depends in order to present itself as both a coded threat and an expression of chivalric values. Well-known examples of romance in Middle English, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, are considered alongside more “popular” examples of the genre to demonstrate a surprising continuity of function across a range of social contexts. Wadiak charts a trajectory from violence aimed directly at securing feudal domination to the subtler and more diffuse modes of coercion that later English romances explore. Ultimately, this is a book about the ways in which romance lives on as an idea, even as the genre itself begins to lose ground at the close of the Middle Ages.