Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

Rhiannon Purdie, Michael Cichon

Introduction: Romance and its Medieval Contexts - Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon The Pleasure of Popular Romance: A Prefatory Essay - Derek Pearsall Representations of Peasant Speech: Some Literary and Social Contexts for The Taill of Rauf Coilyear - Nancy Mason Bradbury 'As ye have brewd, so shal ye drink': the Proverbial Context of Eger and Grime - Michael Cichon Ekphrasis and Narrative in Emaré and Sir Eglamour of Artois - Nicholas Perkins What's in a name? Anglo-Norman Romances or Chansons de geste? - Marianne Ailes 'For Goddes love, sir, mercy!': Recontextualising the Modern Critical Text of Floris and Blancheflor - John A. Geck Roland in England: Contextualising the Middle English Song of Roland - Phillipa Hardman Romance Baptisms and Theological Contexts in The King of Tars and Sir Ferumbras - Siobhain Bly Calkin Modern and Medieval Views on Swooning: the Literary and Medical Contexts of Fainting in Romance - Judith Weiss Walking [between] the Lines: Romance as Itinerary/Map - Robert Rouse Romances of Continuity in the English Rous Roll - Yin Liu 'Ex libris domini Duncani Campbell de Glenwrquhay/miles': The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour in the household of Sir Duncan Campbell, seventh laird of Glenorchy - Emily Wingfield 'Pur les francs homes amender': Clerical Authors and the Thirteenth-Century Context of Historical Romance - Rosalind Field