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...Oren Falk © by Duke University Press 2000 The Son of Orfeo: Kingship and Compromise in a Middle English Romance Oren Falk...

... a A Fine Romance: Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Sixteenth Century Alexander Samson University College London London, United Kingdom In 1600, the translator Francis Rivers argued...

...Lee Manion This essay addresses questions about genre, periodization, and conversion in early modern England by examining changes to the crusading romance. Despite their perceived Catholic leanings, the crusading romance and the romance in general were subsumed into a larger set of “heroical...

...Myra Seaman This article offers an alternative story of the transmission of Middle English verse romance to the one traditionally told by textual scholarship, one rooted in stemmatics' focus on genealogical descent and its principal interest in origins. Like the medieval romance hero himself...

...Sylvia Huot Duke University Press 2007 a Love, Race, and Gender in Medieval Romance: Lancelot and the Son of the Giantess...

...Mary Franklin-Brown; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Alone among the French romances of Alexander the Great penned in the twelfth century, Thomas de Kent’s Roman de toute chevalerie reproduces the story of Alexander’s illegitimate birth from the principal Latin source. According to this account...

..., carnivalesque utopia. Mock-romance becomes an acceptable mode of fantasy for the defeated royalist, including erotic encounters offered as a culturally rebellious, defiantly anti-Puritan activity. Gayton's playfulness is, in its own terms, consistent with the cultural interplay of Spanish and English terms...

...Natasha Simonova In 1804, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia was described as “a book that all have heard of, that some few possess, but that nobody reads.” Indeed, the usual critical narrative has Philip Sidney’s romance falling sharply out of fashion in the eighteenth century from its height...

...Marla Carlson In 1425, Parisians under Anglo-Burgundian rule during the Hundred Years War enjoyed the spectacle of blind men in armor attempting to club a pig to death, in the process clubbing one another. Marginal images in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, a Flemish Romance of Alexander...

...Brooke Heidenreich Findley The fifteenth-century French prose romance Perceforest portrays the relationship between the king and his forests in terms of both control and intimacy. The king's legitimacy arises from his ability to civilize the forests and regulate their resources, yet in another...

...Miranda Griffin; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Across a range of medieval French texts—from the genres of romance, lai , and hagiography—scenes are found involving the discovery and scrutiny of a puzzling, hairy entity that cannot speak for itself, existing outside the confines of human civilization...

... for early modern reception studies as they address poetry, romance, letters, history, hagiography, autobiography, and literary reviews. The transnational perspectives that emerge lead from the Low Countries to Italy, Ireland to France and the Spanish Netherlands, Spain to England, and England to France...

... testimony about posthumous penance. This article uncovers how the Latin Tractatus engages the worries of its audience about the feasibility of the knight’s embodied visit to the afterlife by marshaling familiar narrative patterns from vernacular genres, including chansons de geste and romance. It shows...

... narrative evinces conflicting attitudes toward religious difference. On the one hand, it deploys the conventions of chivalric romance in order to present Tafur’s journey as a oneman reconquista . On the other hand, Tafur’s authority on ethnographic and geographical matters rests on his ability to assimilate...

..., manages estates, builds castles and monasteries in western France, conducts armies across the Mediterranean, and also has at times an enormous snakelike tail or the wings of a dragon. Condemned at the end of the romance by a strongly clerical voice and banished, despite the insistent pleas of her...

... on both sides participated in the crusades, the textual world constructed by crusader texts (histories as well as romances) is a relentlessly homosocial one. None- theless, Islamic women were not completely ignored by the Christian repre- sentation machine. Laws...

... relations, as well as to medieval romances of contact and conversion. In doing so, I also want to suggest that to cross temporal and geographic boundaries is, first and foremost, a conceptual exercise, which involves, to paraphrase Chekhov, the correct formulation of a question, rather than...

... various peoples with a myth of common origin, sometimes forging a bond between a people and their local landscape.3 This study links narratives about Gog and Magog in the Bible, learned commentary, romance, history, topography, and civic pageantry in order to demonstrate how these stories...

... (e.g., Old Celtic literatures, Anglo-Saxon, Old Slavic)—the notable exception being the Gallo-Romance literatures (against which Hispanic philology often imagines itself writing). The cultural border that a literary canon patrols—the space between writing...