The Roman de toute chevalerie : : Reading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England / / Charles Russell Stone.
The medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts and languages, but because it incorporated such diverse perspectives on the conqueror. Beginning with a discussion of the evolution of this corpus, this book exami...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading and Reconstructing the Anglo-Norman Alexander
- Chapter One. Alexander Romance in Twelfth-Century Europe
- Chapter Two. Alexander in Anglo-Norman England: The Latin Texts
- Chapter Three. The Roman de toute chevalerie: Sources, Influences, and Innovations
- Chapter Four. The Two Deaths of Alexander in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O. 9. 34
- Chapter Five. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS 24364: Alexander, Chivalry, and the Wars of Edward I
- Chapter Six. Moralizing Alexander in Durham Cathedral Library MS C.IV.27B
- Chapter Seven. From Anglo-Norman to Middle English Alexander Romance
- Afterword: The Advent of the Continental Alexander
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index