Cultural encounters in the romance of Medieval England
"Cultural encounter necessarily defines and shapes the romances of medieval England: the fluidity and openness that characterise the romance genre allow it to flourish with particular strength in a world distinguished by its different cultural layers. The essays in this collection consider both the early insular tradition and later Middle English traditions - classical, Anglo-Saxon and Continental, and the intersection of lay and clerical, as well as the meeting of genres themselves, in particular romance and chronicle."--Jacket
Kongress Durham 2002
x, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
9781843840329, 1843840324
56730824
Original and translation: Bevis's mother in Anglo-Norman and Middle English / Ivana Djordjevic?
Chronicle and romance: the story of Ine and Æthelburgh / Tony Davenport
The king over water: exile-and-return revisited / Rosalind Field
Ineffectual monarchs: portrayals of regal and imperial power in Ipomedon, Robert le diable and Octavian / Judith Weiss
English identity and the law in Havelok the Dane, Horn childe and maiden Rimnild and Beues of Hamtown / Robert Rouse
The true romance of Tristrem and Ysoude / Phillipa Hardman
Did knights have baths? the absence of bathing in Middle English romance / Elizabeth Archibald
Some notes on 'ennobling love' and its successor in medieval romance / Derek Brewer
'Therof seyus clerkus': slander, rape and Sir Gowther / Neil Cartlidge
Beyond the kick: women's agency in Athelston / Nancy Mason Bradbury
Torrent of Portyngale and the literary giants / Roger Dalrymple
Thomas of Erceldoune: romance as prophecy / Helen Cooper