The Forest of Medieval Romance: The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania

by Corinne J. Saunders

Traces the development of the forest as a central literary motif in medieval romance.

Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913813
• ISBN13: 9780859913812
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"