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The Romance of the Middle Ages

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Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn.

He also incorporates the manuscripts present in the accompanying display at the Bodleian.

Date Published: 21 June 2012
Contributors:
Nicholas Perkins
In Collection(s): Questioning Genre
Keywords:
#greatwriters, medieval, romance, Arthurian, chivalry
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: The Romance of the Middle Ages by Nicholas Perkins at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/romance-middle-ages. Published on 21 June 2012. Accessed on 19 November 2024.

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