The flourishing of romance and the rise of allegory
By: by George Saintsbury ...
Series: Periods of European literature -- II
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Romances -- History and criticism
Notes: Half-title: The twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Table of contents: title: The function of Latin.; title: Chansons de geste.; title: The matter of Britain.; title: Antiquity in romance.; title: The making of English and the settlement of European prosody.; title: Middle High German poetry.; title: The 'Fox', the 'Rose', and the minor contributions of France.; title: Icelandic and Provençal.; title: The literature of the peninsulas.; title: Conclusion.