Title: Medieval Ballads: Chivalry, Romance, and Everyday Life
Description: Despite their status as the major literature of the medieval commoner, the ballads of the Middle Ages have remained generally inaccessible. The present collection provides for the first time a comprehensive selection of these important poems in modern translation, organized according to theme and accorded brief synopses of their sources, motifs, interpretive problems, and cross-references. Moreover, Prof.

Morgan's critical introduction establishes a social and historical context for the ballads of chivalry and romance and a general framework for their reading.
Subjects: Ballads, english, Courtly love, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Chivalry, Knights and knighthood, Poetry, medieval, Romances, English Ballads, Poetry, Texts, English poetry, English Romances, Medieval Poetry