Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781843843597)

Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II's deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author draws attention to the specific circumstances in which Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry Lovelich's History of the Holy Grail and Malory's Morte were read in fifteenth-century England. In the case of the pious romances this implies a study of their reception long after their original composition or translation centuries earlier; in Lovelich's case, an examination of metropolitan culture leads to an opening of the discussion to French romance models as well as English chronicle writing.

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu
ISBN-10: 1843843595
ISBN-13: 9781843843597
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2013
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d