Download or read book The English Charlemagne Romances The romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras his sone who conquerede Rome Ed by E Hausknecht 1881 written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Ferumbras written by Sidney J. Herrtage and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Charlemagne Romances V the Romance of the Sowdone of Babylone written by E. Hausknecht and published by Early English Text Society. This book was released on 1969-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Norman People written by Wace and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.
Download or read book Le Morte Arthur written by Frederick James Furnivall and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Charlemagne Romances Pt 5 Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone of Ferumbras Ed E Hausknecht E E T S E S 38 written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances written by Alan Lupack and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume serves as an excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. Of the three groups of English Charlemagne romances, the Ferumbras group, the Otuel group, and detached romances, the editor has selected one of each: The Sultan of Babylon, The Siege of Milan, and The Tale of Ralph the Collier. This is a valuable introduction to Charlemagne romances and is accessible to beginners in Middle English because of contextualizing introductions and glosses for each text, as well as a helpful glossary.
Download or read book Histoire po tique de Charlemagne written by Gaston Bruno Paulin PARIS and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Knight s Own Book of Chivalry written by Geoffroi de Charny and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms." On the worthiest amusements: "The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come." Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin.
Download or read book English Benedictine Libraries written by Richard Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benedictine abbeys were renowned for containing the finest libraries of medieval England. Among the 120 documents brought together in this volume, there are a significant number of catalogues from major libraries in every century from the 12th to the 16th, including a unique 15th-century index catalogue, recently identified as coming from St Mary's Abbey, York.
Download or read book The Life of Saint Audrey written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserved in a single manuscript in the British library, the Life of Saint Audrey or Vie Seinte Audree is the story of an Anglo-Saxon princess, who, though twice married, remains a virgin until her death. Her tale reveals that spiritual marriage was not an easy path to sainthood, particularly with an unwilling husband. The text is a fine example of what some critics have called a hagiographical romance--a saint's life that borrows many characteristics from secular romance. Recent scholarship, thoroughly discussed in this book's introduction, suggests that the Vie Seinte Audree is a fourth text by Marie de France, to whom the Fables, the Lais, and the Espurgatoire Seint Patriz have been attributed. Written in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, the Vie Seinte Audree is published here for the first time in English, along with the Old French text. The editors of this new edition provide helpful material on the life of the historical Saint Etheldreda (as St. Audrey is called in Latin) and her Anglo-Saxon world. They also discuss women's writing in Anglo-Norman England as well as the subject of spiritual marriage. In addition, they examine secondary sources that have focused on the Vie Seinte Audree. A map of seventh-century England, a table of proper names and a genealogical chart of the Royal Lineage of Saint Audrey are all included.
Download or read book The Chivalrous Society written by Georges Duby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Georges Duby in productivity and originality stands at the forefront of active medievalists in France and in the world. The present collection contains 15 of his short articles, most but not all of which appear in English for the first time. . . Of capital interest are his several essays that explore the evolution of nobility, knighthood, the noble family, and the ideals of chivalry across the central Middle Ages. They are both a summary and the point of departure of current research into the medieval aristocracy .... Indispensable."--Choice "[A] valuable collection. The title is exact. But it is no coffee-table account of courtly life eked out with colour photos of an author's subsidized holiday. It is an interlocking series of studies about the structure of families, the nature of knighthood and nobility, changes of attitudes towards kinship, and the influence of new clerical ideas . . . . Duby shows us noble families becoming specifically knightly, acquiring heritable toponymies, clustering round the patrimony, emphasizing the male line and the eldest born save when the female is an heiress, and in the course of time forming a homogeneous noble class whose members by St. Louis's age, whatever else they are, are gentilhommes. Passion is not spent, but canalized against the enemies of Christ. The discrete themes of undergraduate medieval history are in reality one complex whole: land, wives, dynasty war, celibacy, vows, pilgrimage, crusade, nobility."--Times Literary Supplement "Duby's researches in medieval agrarian and social history have established him as one of the leading international authorities in those areas. This volume brings together 15 of his most significant articles. The book represents the best of 'the new history."'--Library Journal
Download or read book Insular Romance written by Susan Crane and published by . This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance and the Middle English Romance written by Linda Marie Zaerr and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Download or read book A Companion to Wace written by Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book The Lady as Saint written by Brigitte Cazelles and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the thirteenth-century saints exalted are female martyrs and hermits of early Christianity. In The Lady as Saint, Brigitte Cazelles offers the first English translation of these lives and provides extensive commentary on the portrayal of female spirituality.
Download or read book The Nature of Medieval Narrative written by University of Western Ontario. Department of French and published by Lexington, Ky. : French Forum. This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
