Medieval Romance and Material Culture ISBN: 9781782044338 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; Literature; Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature;
Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.
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 agenre 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,
Putter Ad :
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.Radulescu Raluca :
Dr Raluca Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Bangor UniversityRouse Robert :
ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
