Friendship and Love in the Middle English Metrical Romances
- Author / Editor
- Reuters, Anna Hubertine.
Friendship and Love in the Middle English Metrical Romances
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang, 1991.
- Series
- European University Studies, ser. 14.
- Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, no. 226.
- Description
- Classifies some thirty English medtrical romances according to several categories of friendship or love: tales of masculinefrinedship, of male/female mutual love, of marriage, and of the advances of forward fairies, heroines, or heroes. These categories are related to the social and political conditions of the depicted love relation. Reuters briefly surveys courtly love in select romances and assesses Caxton as a successor to the romancers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.