'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.
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
This book offers new approaches for thinking about the narrative possibilities of fairies in medieval romance, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie to Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
This text constructs a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chřtien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chřtien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attracti…
