The gift of narrative in medieval England

ISBN: 9781526139917 出版年：2021 页码：284 Perkins, Nicholas Manchester University Press

This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects.