Author: Nicolas Jacobs
Publisher: Ssmll
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 184384270X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.

Author: Jane Bliss
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843841592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.

Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Alexandra da Costa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019258684X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Marketing English Books is about how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets. Until the advent of print, the sale of books had been primarily a bespoke trade, but printers faced a new sales challenge: how to sell hundreds of identical books to individuals, who had many other demands on their purses. This book contends that this forced printers to think carefully about marketing and potential demand, for even if they sold through a middleman—as most did—that wholesaler, bookseller, or chapman needed to be convinced the books would attract customers. Marketing English Books sets out, therefore, to show how markets for a wide range of texts were cultivated by English printers between 1476 and 1550 within a wider, European context: devotional tracts; forbidden evangelical books; romances, gests, and bawdy tales; news; pilgrimage guides, souvenirs and advertisements; and household advice. Through close analysis of paratexts—including title-pages, prefaces, tables of contents, envoys, colophons, and images—the book reveals the cultural impact of printers in this often overlooked period. It argues that while print and manuscript continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read and the place of reading in their lives on a larger scale and at a faster pace than had occurred before, shaping their expectations, tastes, and even their practices and beliefs.

Author: Saint Chrodegang (Bishop of Metz)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benedictine nuns
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Carol M. Meale
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859914048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.

Author: Partonopeus de Blois
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351338439
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 527

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The shorter English version is extant only as a fragment of 308 lines in a MS. at Vale Royal, and was edited by R.C.N. (i.e. R.C. Nichols) for the Roxburghe Club, London, 1873. The MS. is stated by editor to have been written about 1450. After relating Partinope's arrival in the enchanted city and his meeting with Melior, the text, without any break, proceeds to the morning of the third day of tournament, 1. 277 corresponding to 1. 10811 of the other version. As all attempts at seen the MS. have proved unsuccessful, it has been reprinted from the Roxburghe Club edition. The facsimile of one page included in the volume permitted of a few corrections in the text.