Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 When Romance Comes True
- 2 The Curious History of the Matter of England
- 3 How English Are the English Charlemagne Romances?
- 4 The Sege of Melayne – A Comic Romance; or, How the French Screwed Up and 'Oure Bretonns' Rescued Them
- 5 Romance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequences in The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland
- 6 England, Ireland and Iberia in Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy
- 7 The Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction
- 8 The Peace of the Roads: Authority and auctoritas in Medieval Romance
- 9 The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance
- 10 'The Courteous Warrior': Epic, Romance and Comedy in Boeve de Haumtone
- 11 Rewriting Divine Favour
- 12 Bodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 When Romance Comes True
- 2 The Curious History of the Matter of England
- 3 How English Are the English Charlemagne Romances?
- 4 The Sege of Melayne – A Comic Romance; or, How the French Screwed Up and 'Oure Bretonns' Rescued Them
- 5 Romance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequences in The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland
- 6 England, Ireland and Iberia in Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy
- 7 The Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction
- 8 The Peace of the Roads: Authority and auctoritas in Medieval Romance
- 9 The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance
- 10 'The Courteous Warrior': Epic, Romance and Comedy in Boeve de Haumtone
- 11 Rewriting Divine Favour
- 12 Bodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance
- Index
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- Boundaries in Medieval Romance , pp. vPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008