Romance and the gentry in late medieval England
This book 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 o...
| Main Author: | Johnston, Michael 1977- |
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| Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
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| Summary: |
This book 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. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. This book 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. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191759093 |