Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107664715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 322 str.

Lee Manion

Opis

The first study to demonstrate how English literature continued to engage with crusading from medieval romances right through to Shakespeare.

Recenzje

'Of obvious interest to historians and literary scholars, medievalists and early modernists, Manion's book demonstrates the value of using literary texts, and especially romance, in the study of the crusades, and of viewing the crusades as a fruitful context for cultural production … Overall, Narrating the Crusades demonstrates the topical potential of the romance, a genre whose utility is often seen to lie in its entertainment value.' Mimi Ensley, Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. An anti-national Richard Cœur de Lion: associational forms and the English crusading romance; 2. Sir Isumbras's '[p]rivy' recovery: individual crusading in the fourteenth century; 3. Fictions of recovery in later English crusading romances: Octavian and The Sowdone of Babylone; 4. Re-figuring Catholic and Turk: early modern literatures of crusading and the end of the crusading romance; Conclusion; Bibliography.