Literary Romance and Society in 14th Century England
FAIN: FT-11500-73
James L. Boren
Unaffiliated independent scholar
To investigate the phenomenon "the alliterative revival" in Middle English romances in order to make clear that the poetry of western England, sometimes thought to be remote from the literary world of 14th century London, shares certain interests which are best understood in terms of the contemporary social conditions of England as a whole.