Tradition and transformation in medieval romance /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Field, Rosalind, 1945-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1999.
Subjects:	English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. Romances, English > History and criticism. Tales, Medieval > History and criticism. Rhetoric, Medieval.

Table of Contents:

Thomas and the earl: literary and historical contexts for the Romance of horn / Judith Weiss
"Herkeneth aright": reading Gamelyn for text not context / Stephen Knight
The wardship romance: a new methodology / Noël James Menuge
Middle English romance and the Gesta romanorum / Diane Speed
Sir Amadace and the undisenchanted bride: the relation of the Middle English romance to the folktale tradition of "The grateful dead" / Elizabeth Williams
The Sege of Melayne: a fifteenth-century reading / Phillipa Hardman
Identity, narrative and participation: defining a context for the Middle English Charlemagne romances / Robert Warm
Caxton's concept of "historical romance" within the context of the Crusades: conviction, rhetoric and sales strategy / Joerg Fichte
Chaucerian minstrelsy: Sir Thopas, Troilus and Criseyde and English metrical romance / Nancy Mason Bradbury
"Redinge of romance" in Gower's Confessio amantis / Jeremy Dimmick
The Ide and Olive episode in Lord Berners's Huon of Burdeux / Elizabeth Archibald
The strange history of Valentine and Orson / Helen Cooper.