Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them. The contexts explored here include traditional literary features such as genre and rhetorical technique and literary-cultural questions of authorship, transmission and readership; but they also extend to such broader intellectual and social contexts as medieval understandings of geography, the physiology of swooning, or the efficacy of baptism. A framing context for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall's prefatory essay, in which he revisits his seminal 1965 article on the development of Middle English romance. Rhiannon Purdie is Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews; Michael Cichon is Associate Professor of English at St Thomas More College in the University of Saskatchewan.

Romance. --- Mittelenglisch. --- Literature and society --- Romances, English --- Romances, Scottish --- Literature and society. --- Romances, English. --- Romances, Scottish. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Geschichte 1100-1500. --- To 1500. --- England. --- Scotland. --- Literatura inglesa --- Literatura escocesa --- Literatura y sociedad --- Historia y crítica --- Historia y crítica. --- Historia --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Scottish romances --- Scottish literature --- Social aspects