Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: The Materiality of Medieval Romance and The Erle of Tolous
- 2 Courtly Culture and Emotional Intelligence in the Romance of Horn
- 3 Emplaced Reading, or Towards a Spatial Hermeneutic for Medieval Romance
- 4 Devotional Objects, Saracen Spaces and Miracles in Two Matter of France Romances
- 5 The Werewolf of Wicklow: Shapeshifting and Colonial Identity in the Lai de Melion
- 6 ‘Ladyes war at thare avowing’: The Female Gaze in Late-Medieval Scottish Romance
- 7 The Evolution of Cooperation in The Avowyng of Arthur
- 8 Ritual, Revenge and the Politics of Chess in Medieval Romance
- 9 Adventures in the Bob-and-Wheel Tradition: Narratives and Manuscripts
- 10 Reading King Robert of Sicily's Text(s) and Manuscript Context(s)
- 11 The Circulation of Romances from England in Late-Medieval Ireland
- 12 The Image of the Knightly Harper: Symbolism and Resonance
- 13 Carving the Folie Tristan: Ivory Caskets as Material Evidence of Textual History
- 14 Romancing the Orient: The Roman d'Alexandre and Marco Polo's Livre du grand Khan in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodl. 264
- 15 The Victorian Afterlife of The Thornton Romances
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: The Materiality of Medieval Romance and The Erle of Tolous
- 2 Courtly Culture and Emotional Intelligence in the Romance of Horn
- 3 Emplaced Reading, or Towards a Spatial Hermeneutic for Medieval Romance
- 4 Devotional Objects, Saracen Spaces and Miracles in Two Matter of France Romances
- 5 The Werewolf of Wicklow: Shapeshifting and Colonial Identity in the Lai de Melion
- 6 ‘Ladyes war at thare avowing’: The Female Gaze in Late-Medieval Scottish Romance
- 7 The Evolution of Cooperation in The Avowyng of Arthur
- 8 Ritual, Revenge and the Politics of Chess in Medieval Romance
- 9 Adventures in the Bob-and-Wheel Tradition: Narratives and Manuscripts
- 10 Reading King Robert of Sicily's Text(s) and Manuscript Context(s)
- 11 The Circulation of Romances from England in Late-Medieval Ireland
- 12 The Image of the Knightly Harper: Symbolism and Resonance
- 13 Carving the Folie Tristan: Ivory Caskets as Material Evidence of Textual History
- 14 Romancing the Orient: The Roman d'Alexandre and Marco Polo's Livre du grand Khan in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodl. 264
- 15 The Victorian Afterlife of The Thornton Romances
- Index
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- Medieval Romance and Material Culture , pp. vii - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015