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Rosalind Field, ed.
Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999.
ISBN 0859915530.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 159x242x19mm.
Page count: xv,172pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, some marks on the page edges, otherwise doesn’t look heavily used; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £14.50
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[Publisher’s price £55.00]
Weight without packaging: 505g.

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Contents:
Weiss, Thomas & the Earl — literary & historical contexts for the Romance of Horn;
Knight, Reading Gamelyn for Text not Context;
Menuge, The wardship romance — a new methodology;
Speed, Middle English romance & the Gesta Romanorum;
Williams, Sir Amadace & the undisenchanted bride — relation of Middle English romance to the folktale tradition of 'the grateful dead';
Hardman, Sege of Melayne — a 15th-century reading;
Warm, Identity, narrative & participation — a context for the Middle English Charlemagne romances;
Fichte, Caxton’s concept of 'historical romance' within context of the crusades — conviction, rhetoric & sales strategy;
Bradbury, Chaucerian minstrelsy — Sir Thopas, Troilus & Criseyde & English metrical romance;
Dimmick, 'Reding of romance' in Gower’s Confessio Amantis;
Archibald, The Ide & Olive episode in Berners's Huon of Burdeux;
Cooper, The strange history of Valentine & Orson.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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