Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor (Studies in Medieval Romance)

CONTENTS\n......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS\n......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS\n......Page 10
ABBREVIATIONS\n......Page 12
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: Namoore of this! How to read Guy of Warwick and why......Page 16
1. Gui de Warewic at Home and Abroad: A Hero for Europe......Page 24
2. Gui de Warewic in its Manuscript Context......Page 35
3. Guy of Warwick as a Translation......Page 50
4. From Gui to Guy: The Fashioning of a Popular Romance......Page 67
5. The Manuscripts and Texts of the Middle English Guy of Warwick......Page 84
6. The Speculum Guy de Warwick and Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick: The Non-Romance Middle English Tradition......Page 104
7. An Exemplary Life: Guy of Warwick as Medieval Culture-Hero......Page 117
8. The Visual History of Guy of Warwick......Page 133
9. ‘In her owne persone semly and bewteus’: Representing Women in Stories of Guy of Warwick......Page 156
10. Of Dragons and Saracens: Guy and Bevis in Early Print Illustration......Page 177
11. Guy of Warwick and The Faerie Queene, Book II: Chivalry Through the Ages......Page 192
12. Guy as Early Modern English Hero......Page 208
APPENDIX: Synopsis of the Guy of Warwick narrative......Page 224
INDEX\n......Page 238