Idea Of Anglo-saxon England In Middle English Romance - Couverture rigide

Rouse, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843840413 ISBN 13 : 9781843840411

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2005

Synopsis

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 they show 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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À propos de l'auteur

ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843840413
• ISBN 13: 9781843840411
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible