This is an international essay collection offering insights into how popular romances were adapted into different linguistic and cultural communities of late medieval Europe. "They were the bestsellers of their time; in the late medieval period, a umber of shorter romances and t…
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This is an international essay collection offering insights into how popular romances were adapted into different linguistic and cultural communities of late medieval Europe. "They were the bestsellers of their time; in the late medieval period, a umber of shorter romances and t…
"In Shaping Romance, Matilda Bruckner examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts - complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short - to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in its formative period. Bruckner contends that, in the…
"Examines literary portrayals of women who practice healing and love magic, and argues that these figures were modeled on informally trained practitioners common in the magico-medical paradigm of the high Middle Ages, and were well-respected and successful"--Provided by publishe…
"Examines literary portrayals of women who practice healing and love magic, and argues that these figures were modeled on informally trained practitioners common in the magico-medical paradigm of the high Middle Ages, and were well-respected and successful"--Provided by publishe…
