Author : Ronald Salmon Crane
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Guy of Warwick (Romance)
ISBN :
Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000525570
First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.
Author : Allan Loraine Carter
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Alison Wiggins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841258
The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle English romance right through to the plays and prints of the early modern period and Spenser's Faerie Queene, including the visual tradition in manuscript illustration and material culture as well as the intersection of the legend with local and national history. This volume addresses important questions regarding the continuities and remaking of romance material, and therelation between life and literature. Topics discussed are sensitive to current critical concerns and include translation, reception, magnate ambition, East-West relations, the construction of "Englishness" and national identity, and the literary value of "popular" romance. ALISON WIGGINS is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow; ROSALIND FIELD is Reader in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Note on ebook images: Due to limited rights we are unable to make all images in this book available in the ebook version. If you'd like to purchase the ebook regardless, please email us on [email protected] to obtain a PDF of the images. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. CONTRIBUTORS: JUDITH WEISS, MARIANNE AILES, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, ALISON WIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, DAVID GRIFFITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, ANDREW KING, HELEN COOPER
Author : Ronald Salmon Crane
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Chivalry in literature
ISBN :
Author : John Simons
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780859894456
Chapbooks formed the staple reading matter of ordinary people during the 18th and much of the 19th centuries. These chapbooks derive from romances which were current in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance.
Author : Alison Wiggins
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1580444296
The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood. After his marriage, however, he is stricken by remorse for the very actions that have brought him fame, and he sets out anonymously on a series of pilgrimages of atonement.
Author : ʻAbdullāh Ḥusain Bilgrāmī
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231071642
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
Author : Thomas Herbert Johnson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1400875692
From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regarded by Mark Van Doren as the writer of "the most interesting American verse before the 19th century." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136832238
First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.
