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The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne
tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from
the Chanson de Roland to Caxton. The Matter of France, the
legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but now largely
unrecognised place in the multilingual culture of medieval England.
From the early claim in the Chanson de Roland that Charlemagne held
England as his personal domain, to the later proliferation of
Middle English romances of Charlemagne, the materials are woven
into the insular political and cultural imagination. However,
unlike the wide range of continental French romances, the insular
tradition concentrates on stories of a few heroic characters:
Roland, Fierabras, Otinel. Why did writers and audiences in England
turn again and again to these narratives, rewriting and
reinterpreting them for more than two hundred years? This book is
the first full-length study of the tradition. It investigates the
currency and impact of the Matter of France with equal attention to
English and French-language texts, setting each individual
manuscript or early printed text in its contemporary cultural and
political context. The narratives are revealed to be
extraordinarily adaptable, using the iconic opposition between
Carolingian and Saracen heroes to reflect concerns with national
politics, religious identity, the future of Christendom, chivalry
and ethics, and monarchy and treason.
The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne
tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from
the Chanson de Roland to Caxton. The Matter of France, the
legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but now largely
unrecognised place in the multilingual culture of medieval England.
From the early claim in the Chanson de Roland that Charlemagne held
England as his personal domain, to the later proliferation of
Middle English romances of Charlemagne, the materials are woven
into the insular political and cultural imagination. However,
unlike the wide range of continental French romances, the insular
tradition concentrates on stories of a few heroic characters:
Roland, Fierabras, Otinel. Why did writers and audiences in England
turn again and again to these narratives, rewriting and
reinterpreting them for more than two hundred years? This book
offers the first full-length, in-depth study of the tradition as
manifested in literature and culture. It investigates the currency
and impact of the Matter of France with equal attention to English
and French-language texts, setting each individual manuscript or
early printed text in its contemporary cultural and political
context. The narratives are revealed to be extraordinarily
adaptable, using the iconic opposition between Carolingian and
Saracen heroes to reflect concerns with national politics,
religious identity, the future of Christendom, chivalry and ethics,
and monarchy and treason. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Readerin Medieval
English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading; MARIANNE
AILES is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol.
Translation of eye-witness account of Third Crusade, with emphasis
on Richard the Lionheart. The Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, an early
example of vernacular chronicle, by the Norman poet Ambroise,
presents an eye-witness account of the Third Crusade (1188-92) in a
highly-polished rhetorical style. Central is the character of
Richard the Lion Heart, Ambroise's hero, but the narrative is also
enlivened by short anecdotes, sometimes heroic and sometimes more
down-to-earth, about other participants. It depicts clearly the
privations and sufferings of the ordinary crusaders, whether at the
siege of Acre or on the march, and provides both a detailed record
of events and a personal perspective on the Islamic warriors and
their leaders, in particular Saladin and Saphadin. Ambroise also
shows remarkable knowledge of contemporary weapons of war, such as
siege engines and types of ship. This volume offers a prose
translation into English. Detailed notes identify most of the
participants and clarify literary, biblical and historical
allusions, while the introduction looks at historical, literary and
philological aspects of the poem and assesses its significance as
literary artefact and historical record, setting it in context and
bringing forward new evidence about the identity of the poet. Dr
MARIANNE AILES teaches in the Department of French, University of
Bristol; MALCOLM BARBER is Professor of History at Reading
University.
Contributors: Alexander Kerr, Jean Subrenat, Joseph J. Duggan,
Judith Belam, Marianne Ailes, Philippe Verelst, Francois Suard,
Karen Pratt, James Simpson, Philip E. Bennett, Peter Noble, Tony
Hunt, Edward A. Heinemann, Finn Sinclair, Colin Smith, Gordon
Knott, Jan A. Nelson
Edition and English translation of eye-witness account of Third
Crusade, with emphasis on Richard the Lionheart. The Estoire de la
Guerre Sainte, an early example of vernacular chronicle, by the
Norman poet Ambroise, presents an eye-witness account of the Third
Crusade (1188-92) in a highly-polished rhetorical style. Central is
the character of Richard the Lion Heart, Ambroise's hero, but the
narrative is also enlivened by short anecdotes, sometimes heroic
and sometimes more down-to-earth, about other participants. It
depicts clearly the privations and sufferings of the ordinary
crusaders, whether at the siege of Acre or on the march, and
provides both a detailed record of events and a personal
perspective on the Islamic warriors and their leaders, in
particular Saladin and Saphadin. Ambroise also shows remarkable
knowledge of contemporary weapons of war, such as siege engines and
types of ship. This, the first new edition of the Estoire since
1897, offers text and prose translation into English. Detailed
notes identify most of the participants and clarify literary,
biblical and historical allusions, while the introduction looks at
historical, literary and philological aspects of the poem and
assesses its significance as literary artefact and historical
record, setting it in context and bringing forward new evidence
about the identity of the poet. Dr MARIANNE AILES is Lecturer at
Wadham College, University of Oxford, and Honorary Research Fellow
at Reading University; MALCOLM BARBER is Professor of History at
Reading University.
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. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Nancy
Mason Bradbury, Michael Cichon, Nicholas Perkins, Marianne Ailes,
John A. Geck, Phillipa Hardman, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Judith Weiss,
Robert Rouse, Yin Liu, Emily Wingfield, Rosalind Field
First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis, the most
popular Middle English romance. Sir Bevis of Hampton is one of the
most widespread and important Middle English romances. This book -
the first ever full-length study to be devoted to it - considers it
in its historical and literary contexts, and its Anglo-Norman,
Welsh, Irish and Icelandic versions. It also offers detailed
textual analyses, and discusses particular aspects of the story,
its "afterlife" and its influence during the early modern period.
CONTRIBUTORS: MARIANNE AILES, JUDITH WEISS, ERICH POPPE, REGINE
RECK, CHRISTOPHER SANDERS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, JENNIFER FELLOWS,
ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, SIOBHAIN BLY CALKIN, MELISSA FURROW, CORINNE
SAUNDERS, ANDREW KING.
The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval
and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur.
Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a
central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle
Ages to the modern period. Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans
the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle
English romance right through to the plays and prints of the early
modern period and Spenser's Faerie Queene, including the visual
tradition in manuscript illustration and material culture as well
as the intersection of the legend with local and national history.
This volume addresses important questions regarding the
continuities and remaking of romance material, and therelation
between life and literature. Topics discussed are sensitive to
current critical concerns and include translation, reception,
magnate ambition, East-West relations, the construction of
"Englishness" and national identity,and the literary value of
"popular" romance. ALISON WIGGINS is Lecturer in English Language
at the University of Glasgow; ROSALIND FIELD is Reader in Medieval
Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Note on ebook
images: Due to limited rights we are unable to make all images in
this book available in the ebook version. If you'd like to purchase
the ebook regardless, please email us on [email protected] to
obtain a PDF of the images. We apologise for the inconvenience
caused. CONTRIBUTORS: JUDITH WEISS, MARIANNE AILES, IVANA
DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, ALISON WIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROBERT
ALLEN ROUSE, DAVID GRIFFITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, ANDREW
KING, HELEN COOPER
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Boundaries in Medieval Romance (Hardcover)
Neil M.R. Cartlidge; Contributions by Arlyn Diamond, Corinne Saunders, Elizabeth Berlings, Elizabeth Williams, …
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A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features
of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps
characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive
possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical,
political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and
imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these
boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in
English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They
include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries
between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and
boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception,
especially the "altered states" associated with sickness, magic,
the supernatural, or the divine. CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER,
ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH
BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND,
ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE
SAUNDERS
Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the
matter of identity. Identity is a central concern of medieval
romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin
and parentage, transformation and identity, and fundamental
questions of what constitutes the human. The construction of
knightly identity through education and testing is explored, and
placed in relation to female identity; the significance of the
motif of doubling is studied. Shifting perceptions of identities
are traced through the histories of specific texts, and the
identity of romance itself is the subject of several essays
discussing ideas of genre (the overlap between romance and
hagiography is a theme linking a number of articles in the
collection). Medieval romanceis shown as a marketable commodity in
the printed output of William Copland, and as an opportunity for
literary experimentation in the work of John Metham. The texts
discussed include: Chevalere Assigne, Sir Gowther, Sir Ysumbras,
Beves of Hamtoun, Robert of Cisyle, the Fierabras romances, Breton
lays, Thomas's Tristan and Marie de France's Eliduc. Contributors:
W.A. DAVENPORT, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA
HOPKINS, MORGAN DICKSON, MARIANNE AILES, JUDITH WEISS, JOHN SIMONS,
RHIANNON PURDIE, MALDWYN MILLS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROGER DALRYMPLE.
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