"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…
Introduction: internal folklore -- Fairies and humans between possible worlds -- Avalon: simulacra and fictional facts -- Beyond orthodoxy: tests and quests -- Fairy mistresses: gifts and taboos -- Concllusion.
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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.
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.
"Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with a taste for action-packed tales of love and adventure" -- Provided by publisher.
Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with a taste for action-packed tales of love and adventure. --Provided by publisher.
"Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with a taste for action-packed tales of love and adventure"--
"Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with a taste for action-packed tales of love and adventure"--
"This study explores how Malory's Morte Darthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions - the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Negotiating these influences, Malory transforms constructions of masculine…
Le verso de la jaquette indique : "Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasu…
"Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility. Medieval Romanc…
