{"product_id":"thinking-medieval-romance-9780198795148","title":"Thinking Medieval Romance","description":"Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry\u003cbr\u003eand hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for\u003cbr\u003ethinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish\/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the\u003cbr\u003evarious ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine C. Little\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198795148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine C. Little, \u003cem\u003e1. Professor of English, University of Colorado Boulder\u003c\/em\u003e, Nicola McDonald, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatherine C. Little is Professor of English at University of Colorado Boulder. Author of \u003cem\u003eConfession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTransforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, she has also published essays on the Wycliffite heresy, the\u003cbr\u003ePiers-Plowman-tradition, and the poetry of Chaucer and Spenser. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicola McDonald is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature \u0026amp; the Centre for Medieval Studies, at the University of York. Editor of \u003cem\u003ePulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Middle English Romance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMedieval Obscenities\u003c\/em\u003e, her research focuses on Middle English romance\u003cbr\u003eas a fundamentally interrogative genre. She also works on medieval women, in particular women's literacy and ludic culture and is, additionally, the author of essays on Chaucer, Gower, and late-medieval household miscellanies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40322453864563,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":83.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_36455318-5676-45c5-9643-607d9481fb77.jpg?v=1659446027","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/thinking-medieval-romance-9780198795148","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}