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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Middle English romance"”.
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Magical rings in Middle English romance: an interdisciplinary study in Medieval literature and material culture
… is the tradition of magical rings and stones in Middle English romance. This thesis argues that these objects cannot be thoroughly understood in their literary context without taking into account the complex and widespread beliefs and practices that accompany such objects in the historical …
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Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
From the viewpoint of the twenty-first century, Middle English romance can be a problematic genre. Its fantastic events, stock characters, repetitive structures and contrived endings seem to belong with the fairytale of the nursery rather than with the serious literature of the adult world. …
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Modes of Manuscript Book Production in Late Medieval England with special reference to British Library, Harley MS 3810/I and Related Manuscripts
… of only three surviving witnesses to the short Middle English romance, ‘Sir Orfeo’: London, British Library, Harley MS 3810/I. This study presents a new codicological description of this unassuming fifteenth-century manuscript and shows that, rather than being one whole-book production, it was …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… between privacy and place in urban property, romance beds, marriage, and widowhood by utilizing a theoretical framework developed by modern geographers; expanding on their ideas, I consider how the locative, the material, and the social influenced people's notions of privacy, and how the …
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The Emotional Rhetoric of the Later Crusades: Romance in England after 1291
… an investigation of emotional rhetoric in the Middle English crusading romances. It argues that the prevailing climate after the fall of Acre in 1291 and the evacuation of the last Christian strongholds in the Levant was characterized by a mixture of enduring enthusiasm and fascination, but …