Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence

by Raluca L. Radulescu

Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II's deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843595
• ISBN13: 9781843843597
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"