Landscape in Middle English Romance  -  Andrew M. Richmond

The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World

KORTE INHOUD

Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped an...
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2021 Uitgever: Cambridge University Press ISBN-10: 1108926665 ISBN-13: 9781108926669