TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clifton,Nicole
AU  - Djordjević,Ivana
AU  - Weiss,Judith
TI  - Waldef: A French Romance from Medieval England
T2  - ARC - Foundations
SN  - 9781641894074
U1  - 841.1 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Leeds
PB  - ARC Humanities Press
KW  - Romances
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - battle in literature
KW  - love in literature
KW  - medieval adventure
KW  - medieval politics
KW  - medieval romance
KW  - medieval travel
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Series Editors’ Preface --; Translators’ Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Waldef --; Appendix I. Extracts from the original text, Le Roman de Waldef --; Appendix II. Reordered text of vv. 10807–11190 --; Index of Names; restricted access
N2  - This first English translation of Le Roman de Waldef makes a significant representative of the French literature of medieval England accessible for the first time. Its wide-ranging content provides an ideal introduction to a number of themes in medieval literature, making it suitable for a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. The fast-moving romance plot of this early thirteenth-century tale recounts the ancestry and exploits of Waldef and his two sons, set against a history of pre-Conquest England. The narrative shares themes and incident types with other important insular romances, including the Lai of Haveloc, Boeve de Haumtone, and Gui de Warewic. Waldef’s scope, interest in battle, and political stratagems bear reading alongside medieval chronicles, while secret love affairs connect it with other romance literature of the period, and adventures across a wide area of the known world provide affinities with medieval travel narrative
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781641894074?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781641894074
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781641894074/original
ER  -