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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnston, Michael (Michael Robert), 1977-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	1100 - 1500 Romances, English > History and criticism. English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. Gentry > Great Britain. POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature > Middle English Gentry Romances, English English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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.

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

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