..., the sole instrument on which Tristan and other characters perform. Focusing on three lais, this study offers a selection of images of the medieval harp that document its appearance and use within one of the most popular prose romances of the Middle Ages. Tristan harp lai Iseut Heliot medieval romance...

... Robert Cymbeline Geoffrey of Monmouth Holinshed Raphael Lodge Thomas Warner William adultery All’s Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure Spenser Edmund unfaithfulness Othello Winter’s Tale The medievalism theories of comedy medieval romance festive comedy profeminism Chaucer Gower...

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... de Beauvais retraire to translate McCracken Peggy Chrétien de Troyes Cligés medieval romance Walter Benjamin Jacques Derrida afterlife survival translatio imperii et studii Übersetzbarkeit eignet gewissen Werken wesentlich—das heißt nicht, ihre Übersetzung ist wesentlich für sie selbst...

...In the debate concerning precisely what constitutes a medieval ‘romance’, the Siege of Melayne occupies a special position. This poem participates in the conventions both of romance and of hagiography. The focus of such cross-generic readings is usually the character of Archbishop...

... North Midlands medieval romance original sin devil power Sir Gowther is a 700-line narrative probably originating (in its Middle English form) about 1400 in the North Midlands. It is extant in two mildly divergent manuscript texts, which will here be referred to as the ‘Advocates...

...This article focuses on Spenser's creative response to both the legacy of Chaucer and also to the tradition of native medieval romance. What characterizes Spenser's response to both Chaucer and medieval native romance above all is a sense of strategy. A number of Spenser's texts provoke the reader...

...Verb Second in Medieval Romance. First Edition. Sam Wolfe. © Sam Wolfe 2019. First published 2019 by Oxford University Press. This chapter provides a comprehensive formal account of the V2 property in Medieval Romance. A number of points of continuity between varieties...

... to resolve these controversial aspects and to shed light on the pragmatic contexts which allow FF, as well as the pragmatic functions and values of the fronted foci. A brief discussion of some diachronic aspects of FF in Romance, with particular attention to Medieval Romance, concludes the chapter. Catalan...

... influenced by the idea of Sidney's work, and was able to contrast it with Spenserian pastoral. But Lodge also used native medieval romance and chronicle history, and began to merge fiction and biography in order to explore the nature of human evil. These developments are brought into focus by a contrast...

... into English in the 13th-15th centuries, acquired a new and vibrant popularity when prints of medieval romances became the pulp fiction of the Tudor age, and underwent remarkable metamorphoses in the works of the great Elizabethan writers. Although the motifs themselves remain the same, sometimes even down...

...There are many versions of the story of the hero reclothed in the fashion of medieval romance, and the Middle English tradition is particularly rich in these. This book concludes with five heroic narratives that have been selected for their range of quests, journeys and trials, and also...

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... King Lear Shakespeare New Arcadia Sidney Shakespeare Cervantes Chrétien de Troyes conceptual blending memory medieval romance emotion literary history genre theory Between 1995 and 2002, linguist Gilles Fauconnier and cognitive philosopher Mark Turner coined the term “conceptual blending...

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... ideal pleader, to trace a shared conversation about the construction and dangers of narrative satisfaction to the law. plea narrative theory narrative satisfaction medieval romance Geoffrey Chaucer The Man of Law’s Tale John Gower Confessio Amantis Seven Sages of Rome Placita Corone...

...Difficult pasts combines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. It argues that the medieval romance book became a flexible site of memory...