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Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance (Hardcover)
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Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance (Hardcover)
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Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of
Middle English romance. By examining the development of Middle
English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century
royal-baronial conflict, this book assumes a new historical
perspective. Friction between Plantagenet kings and dissident
barons contributed to the development of the `problem of counsel'
both as an actuality and as a topos in the literature of the
period. Rule by counsel, an ideal which informs medieval English
government at every level, is, the authorargues, central to the
ethos of Middle English romance. The procedural formula of `counsel
and strategy' is tested against a number of romances: Ywain and
Gawain, Havelok, Gamelyn, Athelston, a selection of nine romances
from the Auchinleck manuscript, and Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight. By selecting these narratives Geraldine Barnes is able to
approach the question of counsel from a number of different angles.
This is a book which will stimulate considerable interest among
scholars of medieval literature. GERALDINE BARNES is Senior
Lecturer in English Language and Early English Literature at the
University of Sydney.
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