The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance Hardback
by Robert (Customer) Rouse
Part of the Studies in Medieval Romance series
Hardback
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Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature. As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was important in the construction of a post-Conquest English society that was both aware of, and placed great stock in, its Anglo-Saxon heritage; yet its depiction in post-Conquest literature has been very little studied.
This book examines a wide range of sources (legal and historiographical as well as literary) in order to reveal a "social construction" of Anglo-Saxon England that held a significant place in the literary and cultural imagination of the post-Conquest English.
Using a variety of texts, but the Matter of England romances in particular, the author argues that theyshow a continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon past, from the localised East Sussex legend of King Alfred that underlies the twelfth-century Proverbs of Alfred, to the institutional interest in the Guy of Warwick narrative exhibited by the community of St.
Swithun's Priory in Winchester during the fifteenth century; they are part of a continued cultural remembrance that encompasses chronicles, folk memories, and literature. Dr ROBERT ALLLEN ROUSE teaches in the Department of English, University of British Columbia.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:188 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:19/05/2005
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- ISBN:9781843840411
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:188 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:19/05/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781843840411
