The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Perkins, Nicholas.
The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xii, 270 pp.
- Series
- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, no. 39.
- Description
- Engages several literary and anthropological theories of gifts, and addresses related motifs of reciprocity, generosity, promising, and exchange in medieval English texts, especially romances. Individual chapters assess "King Horn"/"Horn Childe" narratives, the Auchinleck manuscript and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," KnT and TC (gifts, gender, pledging, and praying), FranT and ManT (promises, speech acts, bodies, and the unpredictability of exchange), and Lydgate's "Troy Book" as a narrative of gifts and as a gift book in Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS English 1.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Manciple and His Tale