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These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles from early AngloNorman romances through later English ones like King Edward and the Shepherd to a late 16thcentury recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana Translation in its widest sense the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods is another running theme the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically concerned to stimulate further research on how insular romances were transferred between vernaculars and literary systems while other essays consider Lovelichs Merlin a poem translating its Arthurian material to the poets contemporary London milieu Chaucer and Breton lays in England Contributors JUDITH WEISS IVANA DJORDJEVIC ROSALIND FIELD MORGAN DICKSON ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD AMANDA HOPKINS ARLYN DIAMOND PAUL PRICE WA DAVENPORT RACHEL SNELL ROGER DALRYMPLE HELEN COOPER Selected studies Romance in Medieval England conference
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The Romance of Arthur James J Wilhelms classic anthology of Arthurian literature is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader mapping the course of Arthurian literature and is expanded to cover key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin French German Spanish Welsh Middle English and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance Norris J Lacy builds on the books source material presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modernspelling versions of Arthurian texts The extracts are presented in a new readerfriendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places figures and scenes The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature
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The Romance of Arthur James J Wilhelms classic anthology of Arthurian literature is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader mapping the course of Arthurian literature and is expanded to cover key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin French German Spanish Welsh Middle English and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance Norris J Lacy builds on the books source material presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modernspelling versions of Arthurian texts The extracts are presented in a new readerfriendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places figures and scenes The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature
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Covering almost a thousand years this work features translated texts in a broad range of genres from the early chronicles and Welsh verse through Sir Thomas Malory
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This volume offers newly translated texts that exemplify the two most important traditions of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages Encompassing such key works such as Lawman s Brut and Waces Romance of Brut written in Middle English and Old French respectively the Arthurian Epic Tradition depends on Geoffrey of Monmouths History of the Kings of Britain written in Latin Many modern readers are more familiar with Arthur and his fabled court as the centerpiece of a massive fictional tradition well represented in the second part of this volume including Chrétien de Troyess Story of the Grail The Quest of the Holy Grail and the Perlesvaus These selections emphasize the connection between secular and religious understandings of chivalry that is the most distinctive quality of medieval Arthurian romance Useful as a classroom text the volume provides material for a semester s worth of study
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COVER includes dust jacket moderate wear no tears sunfading on spine clean PAGES underlinings and notes on many pages personal identification written on first blank page medium stains on outside edge small stains on pgs 56 other slight stains clean overall no tears Not exlibrary 200 pgs
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The High Book of the Grail Perlesvausis one of the most fascinating of medieval Arthurian romances standing apart from the main tradition represented by the great romance cycles on which Malory based his work Written in the first half ofthe thirteenth century it represents a totally different view of the legend of the Holy Grail from that found in Wolfram von Eschenbach or the French Quest of the Holy Grail though all derive from Chretiens Perceval the unknownauthor adds a much greater religious emphasis and a desire to glorify crusading chivalry for the secular adventures of Arthur Perceval and Lancelot The framework of the romance is the struggle of Arthur and his knights to impose by force the New Law of Christianity as a kingdomin a great adventure defending the land against treason and paganism and advancing to convert the heathens of other lands This unique view of the Arthurian world is now made accessible to students of medieval literature Arthurian enthusiasts and to historians interested in the world of chivalry and its attitudesNIGEL BRYANT read history and French at Oxford graduating with a first in 1976 His other translations include Chretiens Perceval
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The High Book of the Grail Perlesvaus is one of the most fascinating of medieval Arthurian romances standing apart from the main tradition represented by the great romance cycles on which Malory based his work Written in the first half ofthe thirteenth century it represents a totally different view of the legend of the Holy Grail from that found in Wolfram von Eschenbach or the French Quest of the Holy Grail though all derive from Chrétiens Perceval the unknown author adds a much greater religious emphasis and a desire to glorify crusading chivalry for the secular adventures of Arthur Perceval and Lancelot The framework of the romance is the struggle of Arthur and his knights to impose by force the New Law of Christianity in place of the Old Law Unusually Arthurs knights are seen collectively as members of a kingdom rather than as individual knights on quests defending the land against treason and paganism and advancing to convert the heathen of other lands This unique view of the Arthurian world is now made accessible to students of medieval literature Arthurian enthusiasts and to historians interested in the world of chivalry and its attitudes NIGEL BRYANTs previous Arthurian books include The Legend of the Grail Chretien de Troyes Perceval and its Continuations and Robert de Borons Merlin and the Grail
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Breathtaking and beautiful the sweetest song of all ages unveils the Shulamite journey in the form of an anointed allegory It becomes a journey that not only describes the divine parable penned by Solomon but also a journey that longing lovers of Jesus will find as their very own Love will always find a language to express itself The inspired Song of Songs is a work of art It is a melody sung from the heart of Jesus Christ for his longing bride Its storyline is full of symbols and subtle art forms which without interpretation are often missed or overlooked The Passion Translation expresses this storyline in a way that will help you encounter the heart of God in greater measure The Holy Spirit has hidden within the Song of Songs an amazing storya story of how Jesus makes his bride beautiful and holy by casting out her fear with perfect love This sentfromheaven revelation is waiting to be received with all its intensity and power to unlock the deepest places of our hearts
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Samuel N Rosenberg one of the premier translators of Old French presents in this volume the first modern Englishlanguage version of the thirteenthcentury French romance Robert le Diable a tale of supernatural birth and spiritual redemptionRobert is born after his mother a childless noblewoman secretly calls upon Satan to help her conceive His wicked behavior as a boy and later as a destructive young man is so brutal that one day Robert prevails upon his mother to reveal the secret of his birth and thus the source of his wickedness Upon learning the truth he leaves his privileged home in Normandy to seek salvation Roberts lengthy penanceunder the aegis of the Pope and a pious hermitbegins with his acting as a mute fool in the Roman Emperors court and ends with his sainthood In between he plays the heros role in defeating the Turks in battle and turns down the hand of the Emperors daughter in marriage choosing instead to return to the hermits abodeThe legend of Robert le Diable was extraordinarily influential in the seven hundred years after its creation generating new versions and adaptations in various languages ranging from sixteenthcentury English adaptations by Wynken de Worde and Thomas Lodge to Giacomo Meyerbeers esteemed 1831 opera Framed by a thoughtful introduction and thorough bibliography this accessible translation renders the original octosyllabic rhymed couplets of the metrical Old French romance in energetic free verse
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