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Cultural encounter necessarily defines and shapes the romances of medieval England: the fluidity and openness that characterise the romance genre allow it to flourish with particular strength in a world distinguished by its different cultural layers.The essays in this collection consider both the early insular tradition and later Middle English traditions - classical, Anglo-Saxon and Continental, and the intersection of lay and clerical, as well as the meeting of genres themselves, in particular romance and chronicle. Romance, history and politics are shown to intersect within individual works, while romances also oppose the past and present, savage and civilised, real and ideal, and reflect on the particular cultural dynamics of gender and politics; equally, different cultures meet in the rewriting of material from French to English, from clerical to secular, from medieval to Renaissance.Romance is shown to be a highly self-conscious mode, as English romanciers play with and reshape its conventions and expectations, and its intersection with reality, in a variety of ways.
Contents
Introduction - Corinne SaundersOriginal and Translation: Bevis's Mother in Anglo-Norman and Middle English - Ivana DjordjevicChronicle and Romance: The Story of Ine and AEthelburgh - W A DavenportThe King Over the Water: Exile-and-Return Revisited - Rosalind FieldIneffectual Monarchs: Portrayals of Regal and Imperial Power in Ipomedon, Robert le Diable and Octavian - Judith WeissEnglish Identity and the Law in Havelok the Dane, Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild and Beues of Hamtoun - Robert RouseThe True Romance of Tristrem and Ysoude - Did Knights Have Baths? The Absence of Bathing in Middle English Romance - Elizabeth ArchibaldSome Notes on `Ennobling Love' and its Successor in Medieval Romance - Derek Brewer`Therof seyus clerkus': Slander, Rape and Sir Gowther - Neil CartlidgeBeyond the Kick: Women's Agency in Athelston - Nancy Mason BradburyTorrent of Portyngale and the Literary Giants - Roger DalrympleThomas of Erceldoune: Romance as Prophecy - Helen Cooper
