5 Emaré: The Story and its Telling

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Elizabeth Archibald xi
5. Introduction: Learning, Romance and Arthurianism xiii
6. Abbreviations xix
7. 1 Silence in Debate: The Intellectual Nature of the Roman de Silence 1
8. 2 From Sorceresses to Scholars: Universities and the Disenchantment of Romance 16
9. 3 The Island of Sicily and the Matter of Britain 34
10. 4 Romance Repetitions and the Sea: Brendan, Constance, Apollonius 46
11. 5 Emaré: The Story and its Telling 61
12. 6 Dark Nights of Romance: Thinking and Feeling in the Moment 77
13. 7 ‘This was a sodeyn love’: Ladies Fall in Love in Medieval Romance 93
14. 8 Noise, Sound and Silence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 111
15. 9 Armorial Colours, Quasi-Heraldry, and the Disguised Identity Motif in Sir Gowther, Ipomadon A and Malory’s ‘Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney’ 127
16. 10 The Body Language of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 143
17. 11 ‘Spirituall Thynges’: Human–Divine Encounters in Malory 158
18. 12 Malory’s Morte Darthur and the Bible 172
19. 13 Arthurian Literature in the Percy Folio Manuscript 189
20. 14 Dutch, French and English in Caxton’s Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye 205
21. Bibliography of Elizabeth Archibald’s Writings 227
22. Index 233
23. Tabula Gratulatoria 237