Romance and the gentry in late medieval England / by Michael Johnston.

"Romance and the gentry in late medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-...

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Main Author: Johnston, Michael (Michael Robert), 1977-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1. "A watered-down version of nobility": the growth of the gentry in late Medieval England -- 2. Gentry romances: a literary history -- 3. Gentry romances: the manuscript evidence -- 4. Derbyshire landowners read romance -- 5. Robert Thornton reads romance -- 6. The Irelands read romance -- Appendix: the composition and circulation of gentry romances -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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