The Greatest Medieval Romance Novels of All Time
Chivalric Quests, Courtly Love, Grail Mysteries, and Legendary Medieval AdventuresBy Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Maurice Hewlett, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Robert Williams Buchanan, Sir Thomas Malory, Emily Sarah Holt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Stanley John Weyman, Thomas Love Peacock, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Georg Ebers, Jessie L. Weston, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué
Length285h 19m
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The Greatest Medieval Romance Novels of All Time gathers chivalric adventure, Arthurian quest, courtly love, crusading encounter, dynastic intrigue, and Gothic enchantment into a capacious history of medievalism. Its range extends from foundational romance and chronicle-inflected prose to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century historical fiction, allowing legendary landscapes, tournaments, castles, and perilous journeys to appear in markedly different idioms. Arthurian materials, especially, emerge as a vital imaginative center, while narratives of devotion, political rivalry, and heroic testing demonstrate romance's enduring adaptability. The contributors form a transhistorical fellowship: medieval inheritors of continental and English romance stand beside Victorian and later writers who revived the Middle Ages for audiences shaped by Romanticism, nationalism, imperial culture, religious debate, and the historical novel. Their varied linguistic, national, and cultural positions enrich the volume's treatment of knighthood, gender, faith, and sovereignty. Together, these voices reveal that "the medieval" is both a literary period and a recurrent cultural invention, continually revised through translation, adaptation, and popular narrative. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a broad comparative encounter with romance traditions. It offers an educational passage through changing styles and ideals, while inviting attention to the productive dialogue between inherited legend and modern historical imagination.
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GenreRomance
Length285 hrs 19 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Trevethlan (Vol. 1-3)
26The Eighteenth Book. (pt. 2)
2The Greatest Medieval Romance Novels of All Time
27The Nineteenth Book.
3King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
28The Twentieth Book.
4INTRODUCTION. (pt. 1)
29The Twenty-first Book.
5INTRODUCTION. (pt. 2)
30NOTE A.
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6PREFACE OF WILLIAM CAXTON.
31Ivanhoe
7The First Book of King Arthur.
32Chapter 1
8Book the Second.
33Chapter 2
9The Third Book.
34Chapter 3
10The Fourth Book.
35Chapter 4
11The Fifth Book.
36Chapter 5
12The Seventh Book. (pt. 1)
37Chapter 6
13The Seventh Book. (pt. 2)
38Chapter 7
14The Eighth Book. (pt. 1)
39Chapter 8
15The Eighth Book. (pt. 2)
40Chapter 9
16The Ninth Book. (pt. 1)
41Chapter 10
17The Ninth Book. (pt. 2)
42Chapter 11
18The Tenth Book. (pt. 1)
43Chapter 12
19The Tenth Book. (pt. 2)
44Chapter 13
20The Tenth Book. (pt. 3)
45Chapter 14
21The Eleventh Book.
46Chapter 15
22The Thirteenth Book.
47Chapter 16
23The Fourteenth Book.
48Chapter 17
24The Sixteenth Book.
49Chapter 18
25The Eighteenth Book. (pt. 1)
50Chapter 19
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