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As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was important in the construction of a post-Conquest English society that was both aware of, and placed great stock in, its Anglo-Saxon heritage; yet its depiction in post-Conquest literature has been very little studied. This book examines a wide range of sources (legal and historiographical as well as literary) in order to reveal a 'social construction' of Anglo-Saxon England that held a significant place in the literary and cultural imagination of the post-Conquest English. Using a variety of texts, but the Matter of England romances in particular, the author argues that they show a continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon past, from the localised East Sussex legend of King Alfred that underlies the twelfth-century 'Proverbs of Alfred', to the institutional interest in the 'Guy of Warwick' narrative exhibited by the community of St. Swithun's Priory in Winchester during the fifteenth century; they are part of a continued cultural remembrance that encompasses chronicles, folk memories, and literature. Dr ROBERT ALLLEN ROUSE teaches in the Department of English, University of British Columbia.

Romances [English ] --- History and criticism --- English literature --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Literature and history --- England --- History --- To 1500 --- Anglo-Saxons --- Great Britain --- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 --- Historiography --- England in literature --- Romances, English --- Anglo-Saxons in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- In literature. --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Anglo-Saxon heritage. --- Anglo-Saxon past. --- Department of English. --- English law. --- Matter of England romances. --- Robert Allen Rouse. --- University of British Columbia. --- chronicles. --- cultural remembrance. --- folk memories. --- group identity. --- literature. --- medieval literature.

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Thematology --- English literature --- Literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 400-499 --- anno 500-1199 --- England --- Great Britain

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An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised by a polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" sexuality on the other. British medieval sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential paradigms of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or defiler of women. However, such sexual identities are rarely coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the interstices between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most compelling instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This collection of essays brings together a wide-ranging discussion of the sexual possibilities and fantasies of medieval Britain as they manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as their matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower, Dunbar, Malory, alchemical treatises, and romances, the contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes, strategies and sexual subject positions.

English literature --- Sex in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs

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"Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

Arthurian romances --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Ascension Day. --- Elizabeth I. --- Grail. --- audience. --- consent. --- genre. --- honour. --- malice. --- passion. --- quest. --- secular. --- self-reflection. --- shame. --- spiritual. --- transformation. --- History and criticism.