The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842122
• ISBN13: 9781843842125
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"