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Thinking medieval romance
- Title
- Thinking medieval romance / edited by Katherine C. Little and Nicola McDonald.
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-2711 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- viii, 243 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Does romance think? -- Romance thinks politics -- Romance thinks religion -- Romance thinks music -- Rethinking the term 'romance'.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2711
- ISBN
- 9780198795148
- 0198795149
- LCCN
- 2018938236
- OCLC
- 1030971334
- Title
- Thinking medieval romance / edited by Katherine C. Little and Nicola McDonald.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Little, Katherine C., 1969- editor.McDonald, Nicola, editor.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Thinking medieval romance. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780192514356 (OCoLC)1056711219
- Report No.
- (Coutts)041870436
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2711