Title: Cultural encounters in the romance of Medieval England
Description: "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.
Subjects: Civilization, Politics and literature, English Romances, Literature and society, Literary form, History and criticism, History, Great britain, history, Middle ages, history
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: To 1500, 1066-1485