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The Sinful Knights - A Study of Middle English Penitential Romance (Hardcover)
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The Sinful Knights - A Study of Middle English Penitential Romance (Hardcover)
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The Sinful Knights is a detailed study of a small group of Middle
English romances which concern themselves with the sin, repentence,
and atonement of their heroes. Despite being few in numbers the
poems - Guy of Warwick, Sir Ysumbras, Sir Gowther, and Robert of
Cisyle - form a coherent and distinctive group and have never
previously been studied in association with each other. Andrea
Hopkins finds that in this closely related group of texts, the kind
of penance experienced by the heroes, and its treatment by the
authors, reflects archaic traditions and views at variance with the
contemporary teaching and practice of the Church, and that this
surprising departure is largely determined by the nature of the
kind of literature to which the poems belong - romance. Andrea
Hopkins discusses the nature of romance and the extent to which the
poems are entitled to be considered as such. Detailed examination
of the penitential romances illuminates other more important and
frequently studied texts, particularly Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.
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