'Saxons and Normans' explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the 14th century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances.
As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize…
In the middle ages romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons - to celebrate and justify war, chivalric ideaologies and to rationalize power structures. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre, explaining e…
Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.
"Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially its continued interest in what Janice Radway has called "the purity of his maleness." Popular roman…
"Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially its continued interest in what Janice Radway has called "the purity of his maleness." Popular roman…
Includes information on Arthurian romances, Migel de Cervantes Saavedra, Captain Cox, George Gascoigne, Heraldry, Edward Herbert, Ben Johnson, Francis Kirkman, Gautier de Costes de la Calprenede, Robert Laneham, Sir Thomas Malory, John Marston, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Si…
