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Author:

Johnston, Michael (Michael Robert), 1977-

Title:

Romance and the gentry in late medieval England / by Michael Johnston.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Romances, English--History and criticism.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
Gentry--Great Britain.
Gesellschaft.
Mittelenglisch.
Romance.
English literature--Middle English.
Gentry.
Romances, English.
Great Britain.
1100 - 1500
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-290), appendix, and index.

Contents:

1. "A watered-down version of nobility": The Growth of the Gentry in Late Medieval England -- 2. Gentry Romances: A Literary History -- 3. Gentry Romances: The Manuscript Evidence -- 4. Derbyshire Landowners Read Romance -- 5. Robert Thornton Reads Romance -- 6. The Irelands Read Romance -- Appendix: The Composition and Circulation of Gentry Romances.

Summary:

"Romance and the gentry in late medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English middle ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy." -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

0199679789
9780199679782

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870290930

LCCN:

2014936665

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)