Beschreibung:
Essays dealing with the cultural and linguistic diversity of the romance form from 12c-15c in England.
Introduction, Maldwyn Mills; editing Middle English romances, Jennifer Fellows; collecting Middle English romances and some related book-production activities in the later Middle Ages, John J.Thompson; the Percy Folio Manuscript revisited, Gillian Rogers; the romances in MS Ashmole 61 - an idiosyncratic scribe, Lynne S.Blanchfield; the Morgan Library copy of "Generides", Carol M.Meale; northern "Octabian" and the question of class, John Simons; "The Grete Journee" - "The Sege of Melayne", S.H.A.Shapherd; female perspectives in romance and history, Rosamund Allen; the wooing woman in Anglo-Norman romance, Judith Weiss; romance as history, history as romance, Rosalind Field; comforting the troops - an epic moment in popular romance, David Burnley; hunting the deer - some uses of a motif-complex in Middle English Romance and Saint's Life, Elizabeth Williams.