TY - BOOK ID - 86048902 TI - Waldef : a French romance from Medieval England AU - Djordjević, Ivana AU - Clifton, Nicole AU - Weiss, Judith PY - 2020 SN - 1641894067 1641894075 PB - Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, DB - UniCat KW - Romances KW - Romances. KW - Chivalric romances KW - Chivalry KW - Courtly romances KW - French romances KW - Medieval romances KW - Romances, French KW - Romans courtois KW - French literature KW - Literature, Medieval KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval KW - battle in literature. KW - love in literature. KW - medieval adventure. KW - medieval politics. KW - medieval romance. KW - medieval travel. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86048902 AB - The fast-moving romance plot of this early thirteenth-century tale recounts the ancestry and exploits of Waldef and his two sons, set against a history of pre-Conquest England. The narrative shares themes and incident types with other important insular romances, including the Lai of Haveloc, Boeve de Haumtone, and Gui de Warewic. Waldef's scope, interest in battle, and political stratagems bear reading alongside medieval chronicles, while secret love affairs connect it with other romance literature of the period, and adventures across a wide area of the known world provide affinities with medieval travel narrative. ER -