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Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances
Rhiannon Purdie
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Description for Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances
Hardcover. First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition. Editor(s): Purdie, Rhiannon. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, 4, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings, 3 black and white, 1 lin. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 502.
First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition. The four romances in this collection have been unjustly neglected. Indeed, Florimond, King Orphius and Sir Colling were entirely unknown to modern audiences - despite some late-medieval references to the first two -until fragmentary copies were unearthed in the National Archives of Scotland in the 1970s: all three are researched and fully edited for the first time here. King Orphius, closely and significantly related to the famous Middle English romance Sir Orfeo, is supplemented here with the Laing fragment discovered by the present editor in 2010. Roswall and ... Read more
First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition. The four romances in this collection have been unjustly neglected. Indeed, Florimond, King Orphius and Sir Colling were entirely unknown to modern audiences - despite some late-medieval references to the first two -until fragmentary copies were unearthed in the National Archives of Scotland in the 1970s: all three are researched and fully edited for the first time here. King Orphius, closely and significantly related to the famous Middle English romance Sir Orfeo, is supplemented here with the Laing fragment discovered by the present editor in 2010. Roswall and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Scottish Text Society United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781897976364
SKU
V9781897976364
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Reviews for Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances
A landmark in the on-going transmission of these works. It is an edition for all: the comprehensive textual and interpretative analysis adds much detail to our knowledge of these four texts while helping a new generation of readers to encounter and appreciate the tales for the first time.
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