English Medieval RomanceStarting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'. |
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the Nature of Romance | 1 |
Versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult | 23 |
The evolution of the Matter of Britain | 30 |
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