...Oren Falk The Son of Orfeo: Kingship and Compromise in a Middle English Romance Oren Falk Centre for Medieval Studies...

... consciousness of its possibility. In Italy, preachers such as Giovanni da Capestrano, who composed the treatise De usu cuiuscumque ornatus (1434 – 48) on the ornaments of women, and nearly a century later, Orfeo Cancellieri, who focused on the same theme in his Tractatus de ornatu mulierum, did...

... was published in 1842, Haliwell- Phillipps’s edition of the romances in the Thornton MS in 1844, Zielke’s Sir Orfeo in 1880, and Riston’s Sir Launfal in 1891. In fact, most Middle English romances were first edited in modern editions in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, many of them...

... and maskellez.” Finch, Pearl Poet,  – See also “A matchless maid immaculate” as rendered in J. R. R. Tolkien, trans., “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “Pearl,” and “Sir Orfeo” (London: Harper Collins,  Pearl, lines – “So sodanly on a wonder wyse / I watz war of a prosessyoun...

..., for an unquenchable hunger for anything connected to pleasure and entertainment. In Mantua he employed the best singers and actors — Monteverdi’s opera Arianna was staged that very year for the lavish marriage of his son Francesco, and Orfeo 524  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.3 / 2008...

... Burana, where the two men first met, Pietzsch proposed a second performance of the same work, together with Orff’s recently composed Orfeo, which were conducted by Karl Böhm (director-­general of music at Dresden since 1934) on October 5, 1940. This event was a success and led to several others...