Medieval Romance and Material Culture Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 13 September 2013

This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 25 December 2007

This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been

• Publisher : DS Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Medieval English romance considered as both cultural encounter itself, and as bearing witness to such encounter.

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 18 October 2018

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

• Publisher : DS Brewer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre