Judith A. Jefferson & Ad Putter 
The Transmission of Medieval Romance [PDF ebook] 
Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints

The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms.


Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscripts and early print. The essays collected here deal with the textual transmission of medieval romances in England and Scotland, combining this with investigations into their metre and form; this comparison of the romances in both their material form and their verse form sheds new light on their cultural and social contexts. Topics addressed include the textualhistory of
Sir Orfeo; the singing of Middle English romances; their rhythms and rhyme schemes; their printed transmission from Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde; and the representation of the Otherworld in manuscript miscellanies.


AD PUTTER is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol; JUDITH A. JEFFERSON is Research Associate at the University of Bristol.


Contributors: Michelle de Groot, Judith A. Jefferson, Rebecca E. Lyons, Carol M. Meale, Donka Minkova, Nicholas Mylkebust, Derek Pearsall, Rhiannon Purdie, Ad Putter, Elizabeth Robertson, Jordi Sánchez-Martí, Thorlac Turville-Petre

Mục lục

Introduction: Forms of Transmission of Medieval Romance – Ad Putter and Judith Jefferson

King Orphius and
Sir Orfeo, Scotland and England, Memory and Manuscript – Rhiannon Purdie

The Metre of the
Tale of Gamelyn – Derek Pearsall

Rhyme Royal and Romance – Elizabeth Robertson

The Singing of Middle English Romance: Stanza Forms and
Contrafacta – Ad Putter

Deluxe Copies of Middle English Romance: Scribes and Book Artists – Carol Meale

Is
Cheuelere Assigne an Alliterative Poem? – Thorlac Turville-Petre

Language Tests for the Identification of Middle English Genre – Donka Minkova

The Problem of John Metham’s Prosody – Nicholas Myklebust

The Printed Transmission of Medieval Romance from William Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde, 1473-1535 – Jordi Sanchez-Marti

Compiling Sacred and Secular:
Sir Orfeo and the Otherworlds of Medieval Miscellanies – Michelle De Groot

The Woodville Women, Eleanor Haute, and British Library Royal MS 14 E III – Rebecca Lyons

Giới thiệu về tác giả

The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland’s Piers Plowman.