Thinking Medieval romance / Katherine C. Little and Nicola McDonald.
2018
PN683
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Title
Thinking Medieval romance / Katherine C. Little and Nicola McDonald.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191836497 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Call Number
PN683
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.133
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 20, 2018).
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Print version: 9780198795148
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