Guy of Warwick Icon and Ancestor [Hardcover]

Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle English romance right through to the plays and prints of the early modern period and Spenser's Faerie Queene, including the visual tradition in manuscript illustration and material culture as well as the intersection of the legend with local and national history. This volume addresses important questions regarding the continuities and remaking of romance material, and the relation between life and literature. Topics discussed are sensitive to current critical concerns and include translation, reception, magnate ambition, East-West relations, the construction of Englishness and national identity, and the literary value of popular romance. ALISON WIGGINS is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow; ROSALIND FIELD is Reader in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. CONTRIBUTORS: JUDITH WEISS, MARIANNE AILES, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, ALISON WIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, DAVID GRIFFITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, ANDREW KING, HELEN COOPERThe first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture.Editorial IntroductionGui de Warewic at Home and Abroad: A Hero for Europe - Judith WeissGui de Warewic in its Manuscript Context - Marianne AilesGuy of Warwick as a Translation - Ivana DjordjevicFrom Gui to Guy: The Fashioning of a Popular Romance - Rosalind FieldThe Manuscripts and Texts of the Middle English Guy of Warwick - Alison WigginsThe Speculum Guy de Warwick and Lydgate's Guy of Warwick: The Non-Romance Middle English Tradition - A S G EdwardsAn Exemplary Life: Guy of Warwick as Medieval Culture-Hero - Robert RouseThe Visual History of Guy of Warwick - David Griffith`In helS,