{"product_id":"the-roman-de-toute-chevalerie-reading-alexander-romance-in-late-medieval-england-hardback-9781487501891","title":"The Roman De Toute Chevalerie; Reading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England (Hardback) 9781487501891","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Roman De Toute Chevalerie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles Russell Stone (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501891\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 3 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stone\u0026amp;#x2019;s monograph is grounded in historicism and lively in its address to English social constituencies (baronial, regnal, clerical, courtly-dynastic). It opens the door to further investigation of an understudied but central work, and will be of interest to scholars of romance, text-networks, insular literary history, and codicology.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Christine Chism, University of California, Los Angeles (\u003cem\u003eStudies in the Age of Chaucer\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 examines the manuscripts, readership, and historical contexts of the earliest surviving Alexander romance in England,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThomas de Kent\u0026amp;#x2019;s Anglo-Norman\u003ci\u003e Roman de toute chevalerie\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo shed light on the origins and treatment of this romance, Charles Russell Stone reads each manuscript within the contexts of its production, scribal interpolations, and patronage and readership in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. While Thomas recalls a range of attitudes towards his protagonist in the late twelfth century, when the recovery of classical histories and composition of vernacular romance informed conflicting attitudes towards Alexander\u0026amp;#x2019;s legacy, scribes and readers of his poem appropriated it as a continuing commentary on power, politics, and the relevance of the Alexander legend in their own time. Each of the three major manuscripts of Thomas\u0026amp;#x2019;s poem thus offers a unique text informed by unique literary and political contexts, which this book situates within the ongoing debate over Alexander\u0026amp;#x2019;s reception as a paradigm of imperial authority or failure in late medieval England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reading and Reconstructing the Anglo-Norman Alexander\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Alexander Romance in Twelfth-Century Europe\u003cbr\u003e2 Alexander in Anglo-Norman England: The Latin Texts\u003cbr\u003e3 The Roman de toute chevalerie: Sources, Influences, and Innovations\u003cbr\u003e4 The Two Deaths of Alexander in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O. 9. 34 \u003cbr\u003e5 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS 24364: Alexander, Chivalry, nd the Wars of Edward I\u003cbr\u003e6 Moralizing Alexander in Durham Cathedral Library MS C.IV.27B\u003cbr\u003e7 From Anglo-Norman to Middle English Alexander Romance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: The Advent of the Continental Alexander\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595456508184,"sku":"9781487501891","price":38.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-roman-de-toute-chevalerie-reading-alexander-romance-in-late-medieval-england-hardback-9781487501891","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}