Sovereign Fantasies : : Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain / / Patricia Clare Ingham.
During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham bring...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Matter of Britain
- 1. Arthurian Imagination and the "Makyng" of History
- 2. Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny
- Part II: Romancing the Throne
- 3. Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stones of the Past
- 4. "In Contrayez Straunge": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance
- Part III. Insular Losses
- 6. Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest
- 7. "Necessary" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance
- Afterword: Lost Books
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments