The romance of the Middle Ages / Nicholas Perkins and Alison Wiggins.

Author: Perkins, Nicholas.

Imprint:Oxford : Bodleian Library, c2012.

Description176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 X 21 cm.

Note:Catalog of an exhibition held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Jan 28-May 13, 2012.

Note:Romance and the medieval world / Nicholas Perkins -- Empires of romance / Nicholas Perkins -- Scribes and settings / Alison Wiggins -- Dangerous encounters / Nicholas Perkins -- Romance in the age of print / Alison Wiggins -- Romance in the modern world / Alison Wiggins

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Explores the conjunctions of chivalric violence, love and piety, and openness to the miraculous that mark the romance as the most fertile narrative form of the western Middle Ages. Examines the development of romance as a literary genre, its place in medieval culture, and the scribes and readers who created, owned, and commented on romance books

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