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The Cambridge companion to medieval romance /
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature, offering a clear introduction to a rich array of traditions and texts. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete thi...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/99034240.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam0210/99034240.html |
Table of Contents:
- The shape of romance in medieval France / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
- Marvels of translation and crises of transition in the romances of Antiquity / Christopher Baswell
- Romance and other genres / Simon Gaunt
- The manuscript context of medieval romance / Sylvia Huot
- Courts, clerks, and courtly love / Sarah Kay
- The societal role of chivalry in romance : northwestern Europe / Richard Kaeuper
- The other worlds of romance / Jeff Rider
- Questions of gender in Old French courtly romance / Roberta L. Krueger
- Women and men in late medieval English romance / Sheila Fisher
- The evolution and legacy of French prose romance / Norris J. Lacy
- Medieval German romance / Ann Marie Rasmussen
- Chivalry and medieval Italian romance / F. Regina Psaki
- Gawain and popular chivalric romance in Britain / Thomas Hahn
- Middle English romance : family, marriage, intimacy / Felicity Riddy
- Romance at the crossroads : medieval Spanish paradigms and Cervantine revisions / Marina S. Brownlee.