Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance

by Geraldine Barnes

Book Overview

Barnes contends that rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.

By examining the development of Middle English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century royal-baronial conflict, this book assumes a new historical perspective. Friction between Plantagenet kings and dissident barons contributed to the development of the problem of counsel' both as an actuality and as a topos in the literature of the period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913627
• ISBN13: 9780859913621
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"