Medieval Romance and Material Culture: 18 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1843843900 ISBN 13: 9781843843900

Casa editrice: D.S.Brewer, 2015

Riassunto

Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also a genre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance; poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire.

NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford.

Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,

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Recensione:

Vigorously engages with current work on materialisms. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

From cover to cover, this book is hard to put down. The prose, the content, and ultimately the context give much pause to consider new angles in medieval material culture scholarship. COMITATUS

The variety and richness of medieval culture are amply served by the range of studies. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

L'autore:

Associate Professor and Tutor in English, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

Su questa edizione

• Editore: D.S.Brewer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1843843900
• ISBN 13: 9781843843900
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 311
• Redattore: Perkins Professor Nicholas