Performance and the Middle English Romance

by Linda Marie Zaerr

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843234
• ISBN13: 9781843843238
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"