GiesĬAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy edited by P. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture edited by David T. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this informative overview.ĬAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO CULTURE The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture edited by Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of domestic and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, “other” worlds and gender roles. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain throughout the Middle Ages.
This companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western Literature.