The Matter Of Identity In Medieval Romance
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Author |
: Phillipa Hardman |
Publisher |
: DS Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0859917614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780859917612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by : Phillipa Hardman
Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity. Identity is a central concern of medieval romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin and parentage, transformation and identity, and fundamental questions of what constitutes the human. The construction of knightly identity through education and testing is explored, and placed in relation to female identity; the significance of the motif of doubling is studied. Shifting perceptions of identities are traced through the histories of specific texts, and the identity of romance itself is the subject of several essays discussing ideas of genre (the overlap between romance and hagiography is a theme linking a number of articles in the collection). Medieval romanceis shown as a marketable commodity in the printed output of William Copland, and as an opportunity for literary experimentation in the work of John Metham. The texts discussed include: Chevalere Assigne, Sir Gowther, Sir Ysumbras, Beves of Hamtoun, Robert of Cisyle, the Fierabras romances, Breton lays, Thomas's Tristan and Marie de France's Eliduc. Contributors: W.A. DAVENPORT, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, MORGAN DICKSON, MARIANNE AILES, JUDITH WEISS, JOHN SIMONS, RHIANNON PURDIE, MALDWYN MILLS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROGER DALRYMPLE.
Author |
: Jane Bliss |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843841593 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843841592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance by : Jane Bliss
A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.
Author |
: Katherine C. Little |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2018-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192514363 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192514369 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thinking Medieval Romance by : Katherine C. Little
Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.
Author |
: Lee Manion |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2014-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107057814 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107057817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrating the Crusades by : Lee Manion
The first study to demonstrate how English literature continued to engage with crusading from medieval romances right through to Shakespeare.
Author |
: Daniel T. Kline |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2013-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136221835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136221832 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages by : Daniel T. Kline
Digital gaming’s cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by examining how the Middle Ages have persisted into the contemporary world via digital games as well as analyzing how digital gaming translates, adapts, and remediates medieval stories, themes, characters, and tropes in interactive electronic environments. At the same time, the Middle Ages are reinterpreted according to contemporary concerns and conflicts, in all their complexity. Rather than a distinct time in the past, the Middle Ages form a space in which theory and narrative, gaming and textuality, identity and society are remediated and reimagined. Together, the essays demonstrate that while having its roots firmly in narrative traditions, neomedieval gaming—where neomedievalism no longer negotiates with any reality beyond itself and other medievalisms—creates cultural palimpsests, multiply-layered trans-temporal artifacts. Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages demonstrates that the medieval is more than just a stockpile of historically static facts but is a living, subversive presence in contemporary culture.
Author |
: Mimi Ensley |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2023-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526157881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526157888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Difficult pasts by : Mimi Ensley
Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, though, the Middle English romance genre remained popular across the early modern period. Difficult pasts examines the reception of Middle English romances after the Protestant Reformation in England, arguing that the genre’s popularity rested not in its violent or superstitious qualities, but in its multivocality. Incorporating insights from book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, Ensley argues that the medieval romance book became a flexible site of memory with which early modern readers could both connect with and distance themselves from the recent ‘difficult past’, a past that invited controversy and encouraged divided perspectives. Central characters in this study range from canonical authors like Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser to less studied figures, such as printer William Copland, Elizabethan scribe Edward Banister and seventeenth-century poet and romance enthusiast, John Lane. In uniting a wide range of romance readers’ perspectives, the book complicates clear ruptures between manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance. Difficult pasts reveals how the romance book offers a new way to understand the simultaneous change and continuity that defines post-Reformation England.
Author |
: Annette Kern-Stähler |
Publisher |
: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2020-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783823393269 |
ISBN-13 |
: 382339326X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England by : Annette Kern-Stähler
This volume explores practices of secrecy and surveillance in medieval and early modern England. The ten contributions by Swiss and international scholars (including Paul Strohm, Sylvia Tomasch, Karma Lochrie, and Richard Wilson) address in particular the intersections of secrecy and surveillance with gender and identity, public and private spheres, religious practices, and power structures. Covering a wide range of English literary texts from Old English riddles to medieval romances, the Book of Margery Kempe, and the plays and poems of Shakespeare, these essays seek to contribute to our understanding of the practices of secrecy, exclusion, and disclosure as well as to the much-needed historicisation of Surveillance Studies called for in the opening article by Sylvia Tomasch. ---
Author |
: Emily Dolmans |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843845683 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843845687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England by : Emily Dolmans
An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.
Author |
: Nicholas Perkins |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843843900 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843843900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Romance and Material Culture by : Nicholas Perkins
Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance; poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire. NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,
Author |
: K. Campbell |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137056139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137056134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic by : K. Campbell
This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. This study focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions and their effects on post-Independence Caribbean literature.