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Sir Gawain

- Eleven Romances and Tales
Engelsk Paperback

Sir Gawain

- Eleven Romances and Tales
Engelsk Paperback
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This edition provides the first modern collection of all eleven known Middle English Gawain tales composed or recorded in the fifteenth century or later. These romances highlight Gawain’s status as the most popular hero of Arthurian legend in medieval England, producing a tradition that discards Gawain’s roles of foil, rival, and even villain in Continental European romances to elevate him as the English flower of chivalry. Whether facing the supernatural in the wilderness, danger on the battlefield, or the perils of love, it is Gawain’s peerless courtesy, his “perfect composure in moments of crisis,” that reasserts social bonds and propriety, tames the socially or exotically monstrous, and brings the unruly under royal rule. Demonstrating that Gawain’s prominence in English romance extends far beyond Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, these tales cast this familiar character in a new light and offer valuable insights into English views on the chivalric ideal.

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This edition provides the first modern collection of all eleven known Middle English Gawain tales composed or recorded in the fifteenth century or later. These romances highlight Gawain’s status as the most popular hero of Arthurian legend in medieval England, producing a tradition that discards Gawain’s roles of foil, rival, and even villain in Continental European romances to elevate him as the English flower of chivalry. Whether facing the supernatural in the wilderness, danger on the battlefield, or the perils of love, it is Gawain’s peerless courtesy, his “perfect composure in moments of crisis,” that reasserts social bonds and propriety, tames the socially or exotically monstrous, and brings the unruly under royal rule. Demonstrating that Gawain’s prominence in English romance extends far beyond Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, these tales cast this familiar character in a new light and offer valuable insights into English views on the chivalric ideal.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 452
ISBN-13: 9781879288591
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1879288591
Udg. Dato: 1 jul 1995
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 264mm
Højde: 185mm
Forlag: Medieval Institute Publications
Oplagsdato: 1 jul 1995
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Kategori Middelalderens engelsk


ISBN-13 9781879288591


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 452


Udgave


Længde 25mm


Bredde 264mm


Højde 185mm


Udg. Dato 1 jul 1995


Oplagsdato 1 jul 1995


Forlag Medieval Institute Publications

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