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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Sir Orfeo"”.
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When Men Cry: Male Demonstrations of Grief in Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Sir Orfeo
… to three works: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Sir Orfeo. Although the three tales are written in different languages and centuries, every narrative includes central male protagonists who mourn. Namely, each story includes a weeping king, masses of weeping subjects, and a hero who learns to …
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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
… 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 formed of two smaller …
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Rescripting the political romance: Narratives of kingship, tyranny and community
… English poems (Havelok, The Tale of Gamelyn, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther, Robert of cisyle), normally classed among the romances, in the cultural process of constructing and regulating contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in this discourse …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
<p>This dissertation examines male bereavement in medieval literature, expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across …