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A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated. Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way that no other verse form does. The first examples are recorded near the beginning of the fourteenth century and by the end of it Chaucer's 'Sir Thopas' can rely on it to work as a shorthand for the entire Middle English romance tradition. How and why this came to be is the question that 'Anglicising Romance' sets out to answer. Its five chapters discuss the stanza's origins; the use of tail-rhyme in Anglo-Noman literature; questions of transmission and manuscript layout; the romances of the Auchinleck manuscript; and the geographic spread of tail-rhyme romance. The individual entries in the Appendix present newly reassessed evidence for the provenance and date of each of the thirty-six extant tail-rhyme romances. RHIANNON PURDIE is Senior Lecturer in Mediaeval English at the University of St Andrews.

English poetry --- Romances, English --- History and criticism.

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Kings and rulers --- Arthurian romances. --- Romances, English. --- Kings and rulers.

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L'histoire d'Arthur et de Merlin est la première traduction-adaptation en moyen-anglais de certains pans du cycle du Lancelot-Graal français, à une époque –le XIVe siècle– où la vogue des romans arthuriens s’estompe sur le Continent et commence à prendre son essor en Angleterre. Basé sur le Roman de Merlin et les Premiers faits du roi Arthur, ce texte réorganise les données initiales de la légende arthurienne de façon originale: de la succession difficile du roi Constant aux fiançailles d’Arthur, en passant par l’usurpation de Fortiger, la naissance de Merlin puis celle d’Arthur lui-même, et les multiples guerres que mène le jeune roi contre les envahisseurs Saxons, le géant roi Rion d’Irlande ou ses propres vassaux révoltés. C’est à la fois un moment important de l’histoire littéraire médiévale, et un ouvrage qui s’inscrit parfaitement dans la collection « Moyen Âge européen ». L’introduction replace l’œuvre dans son contexte à la fois littéraire et culturel, avant d’attirer l’attention sur les variantes qu’elle introduit dans la Vulgate arthurienne.

Arthurian romances --- Merlin (Legendary character) --- Romances --- Romances [English ]

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As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe.

Romances, English --- English literature --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Romance. --- intertextuality.