Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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Gender
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gifts
John Lydgate
Manuscripts
Materiality
Medieval literature
Narrative
Romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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- ISBN 9781526167163
- Weight: 331g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.
Nicholas Perkins is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
