{"title":"Incorporation in the Siege of Melayne","authors":"S. Akbari","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00005","url":null,"abstract":"In the debate concerning precisely what constitutes a medieval ‘romance’ the Siege of Melayne occupies a special position. As a number of readers have noted, this poem participates in the conventions both of romance (understood as a genre fundamentally concerned with the deeds of knights) and of hagiography. The focus of such cross-generic readings is usually the character of Archbishop Turpin who, as Barron puts it, has ‘as much of the saint as of the soldier in his nature’. The crossgeneric status of the Siege of Melayne is also in evidence in the dramatic scene which takes place in the chamber of the sultan Arabas, when a crucifix is cast by the Saracens into a great fire and, miraculously, does not burn. Elsewhere in the poem, too, as I will illustrate below, religious and even eucharistic imagery plays a vital role in the unfolding of the narrative. Yet I do not wish to argue that the generic distinctions of romance and hagiography are collapsed in the Siege of Melayne, or for that matter in any other medieval romance, for such efforts have not met with success. Diana Childress has suggested that the overlap between romance and hagiography can be best understood by defining a new category of ‘secular legend’: ‘From romance the secular legend borrows settings, style, and many story motifs ... But instead of entertaining their audiences ... the authors of the secular legends aim to teach moral lessons.’ Andrea Hopkins has found, however, that this is not the case in a group of texts which she identifies as ‘penitential romances.’ Like Childress’s ‘secular legends’, these romances feature a hero who ‘does penance for his sinfulness or who may patiently undergo physical hardship and deprivation and who is rescued or rescues others by divine miracles’. Yet Hopkins concludes that these romances were not thought ‘to constitute a fundamentally different kind of literature from other romances which do not deal with predominantly religious","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114388435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romancing the East","authors":"R. Wilcox","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131319013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Story line and story shape in Sir Percyvell of Gales and Chrétien de Troyes’s Conte du Graal","authors":"Ad Putter","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00012","url":null,"abstract":"The romance of Sir Percyvell of Gales (henceforth Percyvell) was probably composed in the north of England early in the fourteenth century but obviously enjoyed widespread popularity in medieval England. Geoffrey Chaucer, who quoted two lines of it in his parody of popular romance Sir Thopas, evidently knew it well, and the anonymous poet of the Laud Troy Book (c. 1400) included Percyvell in a catalogue of famous heroes celebrated by ‘gestoures ... at mangeres and grete festes’; the other heroes in his list – Bevis, Guy, Tristrem – suggest that the poet was thinking of the English Perceval story rather than Chrétien’s Conte du Graal (c. 1180), on which it is loosely based. 3 But while (according to the Laud Troy Book) the romance was once popularised by professional entertainers, it has come down to us only in a single manuscript, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91, copied around the middle of the fifteenth century by the Yorkshire gentleman Robert Thornton. In 2288 lines of extended tail-rhyme, Percyvell tells the following story:","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127718099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The twin demons of aristocratic society in Sir Gowther","authors":"Alcuin Blamires","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00006","url":null,"abstract":"Sir Gowther is a 700-line narrative probably originating (in its Middle English form) about 1400 in the North Midlands. It is extant in two mildly divergent manuscript texts, which will here be referred to as the ‘Advocates’ and ‘Royal’ versions. Sir Gowther is conspicuous for that surface crankiness and drastic speed which are often found in medieval English verse romances and which readily provoke a modern reader’s suspicion that no very challenging contact with medieval society is being offered. Gowther is the name of the son born to a hitherto childless duchess after she is first threatened with repudiation by her husband and then apparently impregnated by a devil out in an orchard. This son grows up pursuing a life of reckless helter-skelter sadism. However, when an elderly earl of the region alleges that such tyranny proves he cannot be of human stock, Gowther coerces his mother to admit the devilish identity of his father. He recoils from this revelation into a course of abject penitence. Under the pope’s instruction he embraces complete voluntary silence and undertakes a startling regime of selfhumiliation, accepting food only from the mouths of dogs. Gowther’s spiritual rehabilitation is subsequently consolidated through the agency of an emperor’s mute daughter, whom he delivers from the prospect of forced marriage to a Sultan by thrice fighting the Sultan’s forces, in successive suits of armour miraculously supplied in response to prayer. Although the daughter falls from her tower when she sees Gowther wounded on her behalf, she arises after three days of ‘death’ and escapes also from her own mute condition to proclaim news of his divine forgiveness. Gowther marries her and they inherit the empire. Sir Gowther has seemed in the past too slight and eccentric, too brusque and melodramatic to attract much serious notice apart from","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129755759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eating people and the alimentary logic of Richard Coeur de Lion","authors":"N. McDonald","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00010","url":null,"abstract":"pity. No fourteenth-century English cook is known to have prepared for consumption the flesh of a real Turk, yet the Turk's Head, a sweet-andsour meat pie shaped and decorated to resemble the outlandish features of a stereotyped Saracen, was a familiar late medieval dish. Richard Coeur de Lion, a romance whose medieval popularity is well attested, arrests modern readers with the spectacle of its man-eating king. Duped into mistaking a cooked Saracen for pork, the ailing Richard devours a dish of boiled flesh, faster than his steward can carve, and gnaws on the bones. PDF Nicola McDonald Eating people and the alimentary logic of Richard Coeur de Lion in Pulp fictions of medieval England Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00010 Online Publication Date: 30 Jul 2018","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116498593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121998593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporary virginity and the everyday body","authors":"Felicity J. Riddy","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00013","url":null,"abstract":"The earliest surviving representation of an English bourgeois family at prayer appears in a fifteenth-century book of hours, now known as the Bolton Hours, made for members of a York mercantile family. The family's whole prayer, cast as it is in that form of the future that imperatives bring into being opens up a space for narrative. The family is represented around the issue of sexual conduct and good name of its female members. There was more than one latemedieval discourse of virginity. On the one hand, virginity was represented as a sacred vocation that was placed highest in the triad virginity-widowhood-marriage. This way of categorizing female sexuality had been a commonplace of Christian thought since the fourth century.","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128589253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A, A and B","authors":"S. Delany","doi":"10.7765/9781526137593.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137593.00007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152829,"journal":{"name":"Pulp fictions of medieval England","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126591404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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