Rereading Middle English romance : manuscript layout, decoration, and the rhetoric of composite structure / Murray J. Evans
1995, 1st edition. Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press. Fine copy in the original title-blocked, colour-printed cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425863
ISBN: 0773512373
Physical description; xx, 203 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- 1 Compilatio, Physical Layout, and Decoration: Touchstones -- 2 Romance, Nonromance, and Conventions of Manuscript Layout and Decoration: A Survey of Some Collections -- 3 Romances in Composite Manuscript Contexts I: Sir Isumbras, the '' Isumbras-Group, and Homiletic Romance -- 4 Romances in Composite Manuscript Contexts II: Sir Degaré, Sir Orfeo, and the Middle English Lay -- 5 The Rhetoric of Composite Structure, or Rereading Middle English Romance: Conclusions
Appendix: Lists of Data and Contents for Each ManuscriptNotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y. Subjects; Romances, English Manuscripts. Romances, English Illustrations. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval England. Illumination of books and manuscripts, English. Manuscripts, English (Middle). Romances, English History and criticism. Romances, English ; Illustrations.
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