The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints

by Judith A. Jefferson

The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms.

Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscripts and early print. The essays collected here deal with the textual transmission of medieval romances in England and Scotland, combining this with investigations into their metre and form; this comparison of the romances in both their material form...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843845105
• ISBN13: 9781843845102
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"