Author: Rhiannon Purdie
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843841622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated.
Author: Leila K. Norako
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501776339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what these texts reveal about the cultural anxieties of late medieval England. Leila K. Norako highlights the impact that the Ottoman victory and subsequent massacre of Christian prisoners at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 had on intensifying the popularity of what she calls recovery romance. These two episodes inspired a sense of urgency over the fate of the Holy Land and of Latin Christendom itself, resulting in the proliferation of romances in which crusading English kings like Richard I and anachronistic legends like King Arthur not only reconquered Jerusalem but committed genocidal violence against the Muslims. These romances, which—as Norako argues—also influenced Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, conjure fantasies of an ascendant global Christendom by rehearsing acts of conquest and cultural annihilation that were impossible to realize in the late Middle Ages. Emphasizing the tension in these texts between nostalgia and anticipation that fuels their narrative momentum, Monstrous Fantasies also explores how the cultural desires for European and Christian hegemony that recovery romances versified were revived in the wake of the so-called wars on terror in the twenty-first century in such films as Kingdom of Heaven and American Sniper.
Author: Laura Ashe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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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 contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
Author: Sidney John Hervon Herrtage
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Author: Phillipa Hardman
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859917612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity.
Author: Henry Morley
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Author: A. W. Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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