Medieval romance, medieval contexts
By: edited by Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon
Series: Studies in medieval romance; Studies in medieval romance
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781843842606
Subjects: Scottish Romances; History and criticism; English Romances; Literature and society; History
Notes: "This volume developed from a selection of the forty-odd papers presented at the 11th Biennial 'Romance in Medieval Britain' conference hosted by School of English at the University  of St Andrews in March 2008"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English; occasional phrases in Middle French with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Romance and its medieval contexts  -- Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon; title: The pleasure of popular romance :; title: a prefatory essay  -- Derek Pearsall; title: Representations of peasant speech :; title: some literary and social contexts for The taill of Rauf Coilyear  -- Nancy Mason Bradbury; title: As ye have brewd, so shal ye drink :; title: the proverbial context of Eger and Grime  -- Michael Cichon; title: Ekphrasis and narrative in Emare and Sir Eglamour of Artois  -- Nicholas Perkins; title: What's in a name? :; title: Anglo-Norman romances or Chansons de gest?  -- Marianne Ailes; title: For Goddes loue, sir, mercy! :; title: Recontextualising the modern critical text of Floris and Blancheflor  -- John A. Geck; title: Roland in England :; title: contextualising the Middle English Song of Roland  -- Phillipa Hardman; title: Romance baptisms and theological contexts in The king of tars and Sir Ferumbras  -- Siobhain Bly Calkin; title: Modern and medieval views on swooning :; title: the literary and medical contexts of fainting in romance  -- Judith Weiss; title: Walking (between) the lines :; title: romance as itinerary/map  -- Robert Rouse; title: Romances of continuity in the English Rous Roll  -- Yin Liu; title: Ex Libris domini duncani/Campbell de gelnwrquhay/miles :; title: The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour in the household of Sir Duncan Campbell, seventh laird of Glenorchy  -- Emily Wingfield; title: Pur les francs homes amender :; title: clerical authors and the thirteenth-century context of historical romance -- Rosaling Field.