Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England sheds new light on Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in late medieval England. Romances are the predecessors to modern science fiction and Westerns: like these genres, they are often thought of as representative of the "popular culture" of their day. This book, however, offers a different perspective on the genre of medieval English romance, showing that, in fact, suchtexts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility. To make this case, Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England examines surviving manuscripts, surveys recentwork by historians on the gentry, and provides analyses of the literary texts, all of which, together, shows this genre speaking to this social class.
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Romances Medieval French and English romances were particularly attractive to gentry readers , as the heroes and ... Although he looks archaic , he is in many ways a new man in fourteenth - century England : an adventure - seeker and ...
This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made.
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57; Goldberg, Medieval England, pp. 93–94; R.H. Hilton, The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford, 1975), p. 21. Goldberg, Medieval England, pp. 100–113; Sylvia Thrupp, “The Grouping of the Population by Crafts and ...
Livingston and Bollard (2013) contains texts, translation, and discussions of Iolo's work for Owain Glyndˆwr. SEE ALSO: Cywyddwyr; Owain Glynd̂wr REFERENCES Johnston, David. 1986. “Iolo Goch and the English: Welsh Poetry and Politics in ...
The Sherbrooke family sold the manuscript to Sir Walter Scott (in service to the Advocates Library in Edinburgh) around 300 years later, in 1806 (see Johnston, Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England, pp. 142–53, esp. p. 144).
Thornton, moreover, added a decorative scheme to both of these romances, something he did not do elsewhere in the ... 8 (2007), 304–13; and M. Johnston, Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England (forthcoming, Oxford, 2014), ch. 5.
277–8; James Ralston Caldwell, ed., Eger and Grime: A Parallel-Text Edition of the Percy and Huntington-Laing Versions of the Romance, with an Introductory Study (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933), p.
114; and Middle English Dictionary, mōn(e), senses 4, 5, 6. Moon proverbs in French are collected in Middle French Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases, ed. by James Woodrow Hassell, Jr. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ...