Romance and its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence

Examination of romance texts from late medieval England, linking them firmly to their political and social context.

Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering andgenealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II's deposition to the end of...