Thinking Medieval Romance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 November 2018
- ISBN 9780198795148
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 242x163x21 mm
- Weight 538 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Theoretically savvy and polemical arguments about a broad range of French, Middle English, and Mediterranean romances, that will revise scholars' and students' understanding of what medieval romances are and, more importantly, what they do to and for their readers.
MoreLong description:
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.
this is an engaging, thought-provoking, and timely volume that urges us to reconsider certainties and question the unquestionable, just as, the authors argue, the romances themselves do.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Does Romance Think?
The Wonder of Middle English Romance
Unthinking Thought: Romance's Wisdom
II. Romance Thinks Politics
Killing the King: Romance and the Politicization of History
Thinking through the English Crusading Romance: Sir Gowther and the Baltic
III. Romance thinks religion
Weaving a Tapestry from Biblical Exegesis to Romance Textuality: Caught in the Web of Chrétien's Conte du Graal
Marie de France, the Psalms, and the Construction of Romance Authorship
Romance and Revelation
IV. Romance Thinks Music
Song and the Soundscape of Old French Romance
Music by Tristan: The Two Lais of Chèvrefeuille
V. Rethinking the term 'Romance'
Romance in/ and the Medieval Mediterranean
Good History, Bad Romance, and the Making of Literature
