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Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance; poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire. NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,

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Author:   Professor Nicholas Perkins ,  Ad Putter ,  Dr Aisling Byrne ,  Anna Caughey
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Volume:   v. 18
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781843843900

ISBN 10:   1843843900
Pages:   311
Publication Date:   19 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Materiality of Medieval Romance and The Erle of Tolous - Nicholas Perkins Courtly Culture and Emotional Intelligence in The Romance of Horn - Rosalind Field Emplaced Reading, or Towards a Spatial Hermeneutic for Medieval Romance - Robert Rouse Devotional Objects, Saracen Spaces and Miracles in Two Matter of France Romances - Siobhain Bly Calkin The Werewolf of Wicklow: Shapeshifting and Colonial Identity in the Lai de Melion - Neil Cartlidge 'Ladyes war at thare avowing': The Female Gaze in Late-Medieval Scottish Romance - Anna Caughey The Evolution of Cooperation in The Avowyng of Arthur - Elliot Kendall Ritual, Revenge and the Politics of Chess in Medieval Romance - Adventures in the Bob-and-Wheel Tradition: Narratives and Manuscripts - Ad Putter Reading King Robert of Sicily's Text(s) and Manuscript Context(s) - Raluca Radulescu The Circulation of Romances from England in Late-Medieval Ireland - Aisling Byrne The Image of the Knightly Harper: Symbolism and Resonance - Morgan Dickson Carving the Folie Tristan: Ivory Caskets as Material Evidence of Textual History - Henrike Manuwald Romancing the Orient: The Roman d'Alexandre and Marco Polo's Livre du grand Khan in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodl. 264 - Mark Cruse The Victorian Afterlife of the Thornton Romances - Nancy Mason Bradbury

Reviews

Vigorously engages with current work on materialisms. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES From cover to cover, this book is hard to put down. The prose, the content, and ultimately the context give much pause to consider new angles in medieval material culture scholarship. COMITATUS The varih pause to consider new angles in medieval material culture scholarship. COMITATUS The variety and rich

Vigorously engages with current work on materialisms. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES From cover to cover, this book is hard to put down. The prose, the content, and ultimately the context give much pause to consider new angles in medieval material culture scholarship. COMITATUS The variety and richness of medieval culture are amply served by the range of studies. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The variety and richness of medieval culture are amply served by the range of studies. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Author Information

Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. Dr Raluca Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Bangor University ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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