The legend of Guy of Warwick /
First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of War...
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Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE ANTECEDENTS FOR GUY'S LEGEND
- 1. The Norman World
- 2. Anglo-Saxon Athelstan
- 3. William of Malmesbury
- 4. An Anglo-Norman Legend
- 5. William Marshall
- 6. Saint Alexis
- 7. William of Orange
- 8. Chr & ien de Troyes
- CHAPTER TWO AN ANGLO-NORMAN HERO: THE FIRST GUY OF WARWICK
- CHAPTER THREE GUY: A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HERO
- 1. Middle English Romance in Verse
- 2. Speculum Gy de Warewyke
- 3. Gesta Romanorum
- 4. Chronicles
- Peter Langtoft, Gerard of Cornwall
- Liber Regum Anglie, Henry Knighton
- 5. Le Rommant de Guy de Warwik et de Herolt d'Ardenne
- 6. Pictorial Representations Auchinleck MS, Langtoft's Chronicle, Taymouth Hours, Smithfield Decretals, Misericords and Mazer
- CHAPTER FOUR LATE MEDIEVAL ADAPTATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL REPUTE
- 1. Fifteenth-century Middle English Romance
- 2. Richard de Beauchamp: Living Guy's Legend
- Beauchamp (Warwick) Pageants
- Guy's Statue & Beauchamp Tomb
- Manuscript Illumination
- 3. John Lydgate's Guy of Warwick
- 4. The Rous Rolls
- 5. Chronicles of Thomas Rudbome and John Hardyng
- 6. Guy & . Colebrande
- 7. Gydo und Thyrsus
- 8. A Celtic Guy of Warwick
- 9. Tirant lo Blanc
- CHAPTER FIVE RENAISSANCE DIVERSITY
- 1. The First Printed English Version
- 2. Sixteenth-century printed Le Rommant (1525 and 1550)
- 3. Jean Louvet's mystere (1537)
- 4. Renaissance Hero in History and Heraldry
- John Leland's Itinerary (1535-43), John Caius Robert Fabyan and Grafton's Chronicle (1516-59)
- Holinshed's Chronicle (1578)
- A Jesuit Historia Anglic um Ecclesiastica (1622)
- William Camden's Britain (1586-1610)
- John Speede Map (1610), Dudley's "Booke of Petegree"
- Descent of the House of Warwick (later 16C)
- 5. One of the Nine Worthies. Richard Lloyd, A brief discourse of . . the Nine Worthies (1584)
- 6. "Was ever knight"- Guy as Ballad Hero (1591/2)
- 7. Richard Johnson, The Seven Champions of Christendom (1596-1616)
- 8. Guy on the English Stage
- The Tragical History (16187/1661)
- 9. Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1598/1613)
- 10. John Lane, "Corrected Histone of Guy Earle of Warwick" (1621)
- 11. Samuel Rowlands' Famous History (1632?)
- 12. Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656)
- CHAPTER SIX PENNY HISTORIES AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURY ANTIQUARIANS
- 1. Humphrey Crouch, The Heroick History (1655)
- 2. Samuel Smithson, The Famous History of Guy Earlof Warwick (c.1680)
- 3. Abridgementsof Smithson's Chapbook
- 4. John Shurley, The Renowned History (1681)
- Bates' Abridgement, The Historyof the Famous Exploits
- 5. George Conyers, Famous History (1690s)
- 6. A Remarkable Account of Guy (1792)
- 7. "G. L.," The Noble and Renowned History (1706-19 C)
- 8. Abridgementsof G.L.'s Version
- 9. Antiquarians and Literary Historians
- Camden's Magna Britannia Revised
- Pegge's Memoir on the Story of Guy Earl of Warwick (1767/83)
- Chivalry as Philosophical Principle: Hurd, Hume, Burke
- Literary Historians: Warton, Ritson, Reeve, Ellis
- CHAPTER SEVEN A STORY FOR CHILDREN, SATIRISTS, AND VISITORS TO WARWICK
- 1. Nursery Books (1780s)
- 2. Guy in 1808: True History and Romantic Love
- Mr. Somers History
- A. St. John, Tales of Former Times
- 3. Guy's Exploits in America
- The Wonderful Exploit (1817/1830) Laurence Lovechild, Guy of Warwick (c.l850/afterl850) Peter Parley
- 4. Mid- and Late-Nineteenth-Century Literature for Children
- Felix Summerly and Ambrose Merton (c.1843)
- Merry Tales for Little Folks (c.1850)
- Cox, Popular Romances of the Middle Ages (1871) / Mabie, Legends that Every Child Should Know (1906) Sidney Lanier, The Boy's Percy (1882)
- 5. A Romance for Adults: Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century Ellis, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1802/48), Scholarly Editions (1840, 1875-91)
- A.R. Hope-Moncrieff, Stories of Old Renown (1883) / Romance and Legend of Chivalry (1919)
- John Ashton, Romances of Chivalry (1887)
- 6. Satiric Retellings o f Guy's Legend
- Guy's Porridge Pot and The Dun Cow (1808/9)
- Pantomime (1841), Sir Guy de Guy (1854)
- Grace Greenwood, Merrie England (1855/1908)
- Dr. Doran, Knights and Their Days (1856)
- 7. Local Warwickshire Hero
- An Historical and Descriptive Account (1815/17)
- Warwick Castle: A Poem (1846)
- Pickering & Courthope, Rous Roll (1845/59)
- Histories o f Noble Br itish Families (1846)
- J. Tom Burgess, Historic Warwickshire (1876/93)
- Cooke's Guides and Others
- CHAPTER EIGHT APOTHEOSIS AND DECLINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 1. Warwick Castle and Its Earls (1903) Warwick Pageant of 1906
- 2. G.H. Gerould, Sir Guy of Warwick (1905/12)
- 3. H.E. Marshall, Stories of Guy of Warwick (1906)
- 4. Collections o f Tales and Romances
- Andrew Lang, The Red Romance Book (1905)
- E.M. Wilmot-Buxton, Britain Long Ago (1906)/ Tales of Early England (1909-1926)
- F.J. Harvey Darton, A Wonder Book of Old Romance (1907)
- Joyce Pollard, Stories from Old English Romance (1912)
- 5. Between the Wars
- A Schooltext in the Twenties Dorothy Margaret Stuart, The Book of Chivalry and Romance (1933)
- 6. Guy for the Children after World War II
- Kathleen Fidler, True Tales o f Castles (1969)
- Jessica Claridge, Folk Tales, Myths and Legends (1971)
- Margaret Hodges, Knight Prisoner (1976)
- 7. Twentieth-century Guidebooks
- 8. A Hero o f Folktale in the Late Twentieth Century
- Eric Swift, Folk Tales of the East Midlands (1954)
- Roy Palmer, The Folklore o f Warwickshire (1976)
- Merlin Price, Folktales & Legends of Warwickshire (1982)
- Guy in Restaurant and Public House
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE ANTECEDENTS FOR GUY'S LEGEND
- 1. The Norman World
- 2. Anglo-Saxon Athelstan
- 3. William of Malmesbury
- 4. An Anglo-Norman Legend
- 5. William Marshall
- 6. Saint Alexis
- 7. William of Orange
- 8. Chr&ien de Troyes
- CHAPTER TWO AN ANGLO-NORMAN HERO: THE FIRST GUY OF WARWICK
- CHAPTER THREE GUY: A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HERO
- 1. Middle English Romance in Verse
- 2. Speculum Gy de Warewyke
- 3. Gesta Romanorum
- 4. Chronicles
- Peter Langtoft, Gerard of Cornwall
- Liber Regum Anglie, Henry Knighton
- 5. Le Rommant de Guy de Warwik et de Herolt d'Ardenne
- 6. Pictorial Representations Auchinleck MS, Langtoft's Chronicle, Taymouth Hours, Smithfield Decretals, Misericords and Mazer
- CHAPTER FOUR LATE MEDIEVAL ADAPTATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL REPUTE
- 1. Fifteenth-century Middle English Romance
- 2. Richard de Beauchamp: Living Guy's Legend
- Beauchamp (Warwick) Pageants
- Guy's Statue & Beauchamp Tomb
- Manuscript Illumination
- 3. John Lydgate's Guy of Warwick
- 4. The Rous Rolls
- 5. Chronicles of Thomas Rudbome and John Hardyng
- 6. Guy &. Colebrande
- 7. Gydo und Thyrsus
- 8. A Celtic Guy of Warwick
- 9. Tirant lo Blanc
- CHAPTER FIVE RENAISSANCE DIVERSITY
- 1. The First Printed English Version
- 2. Sixteenth-century printed Le Rommant (1525 and 1550)
- 3. Jean Louvet's mystere (1537)
- 4. Renaissance Hero in History and Heraldry
- John Leland's Itinerary (1535-43), John Caius Robert Fabyan and Grafton's Chronicle (1516-59)
- Holinshed's Chronicle (1578)
- A Jesuit Historia Anglic um Ecclesiastica (1622)
- William Camden's Britain (1586-1610)
- John Speede Map (1610), Dudley's "Booke of Petegree"
- Descent of the House of Warwick (later 16C)
- 5. One of the Nine Worthies. Richard Lloyd, A brief discourse of . . the Nine Worthies (1584)
- 6. "Was ever knight"- Guy as Ballad Hero (1591/2)
- 7. Richard Johnson, The Seven Champions of Christendom (1596-1616)
- 8. Guy on the English Stage
- The Tragical History (16187/1661)
- 9. Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1598/1613)
- 10. John Lane, "Corrected Histone of Guy Earle of Warwick" (1621)
- 11. Samuel Rowlands' Famous History (1632?)
- 12. Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656)
- CHAPTER SIX PENNY HISTORIES AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURY ANTIQUARIANS
- 1. Humphrey Crouch, The Heroick History (1655)
- 2. Samuel Smithson, The Famous History of Guy Earlof Warwick (c.1680)
- 3. Abridgementsof Smithson's Chapbook
- 4. John Shurley, The Renowned History (1681)
- Bates' Abridgement, The Historyof the Famous Exploits
- 5. George Conyers, Famous History (1690s)
- 6. A Remarkable Account of Guy (1792)
- 7. "G. L.," The Noble and Renowned History (1706-19 C)
- 8. Abridgementsof G. L.'s Version
- 9. Antiquarians and Literary Historians
- Camden's Magna Britannia Revised
- Pegge's Memoir on the Story of Guy Earl of Warwick (1767/83)
- Chivalry as Philosophical Principle: Hurd, Hume, Burke
- Literary Historians: Warton, Ritson, Reeve, Ellis
- CHAPTER SEVEN A STORY FOR CHILDREN, SATIRISTS, AND VISITORS TO WARWICK
- 1. Nursery Books (1780s)
- 2. Guy in 1808: True History and Romantic Love
- Mr. Somers History
- A. St. John, Tales of Former Times
- 3. Guy's Exploits in America
- The Wonderful Exploit (1817/1830) Laurence Lovechild, Guy of Warwick (c.l850/afterl850) Peter Parley
- 4. Mid- and Late-Nineteenth-Century Literature for Children
- Felix Summerly and Ambrose Merton (c.1843)
- Merry Tales for Little Folks (c.1850)
- Cox, Popular Romances of the Middle Ages (1871) / Mabie, Legends that Every Child Should Know (1906) Sidney Lanier, The Boy's Percy (1882)
- 5. A Romance for Adults: Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century Ellis, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1802/48), Scholarly Editions (1840, 1875-91)
- A. R. Hope-Moncrieff, Stories of Old Renown (1883) / Romance and Legend of Chivalry (1919)
- John Ashton, Romances of Chivalry (1887)
- 6. Satiric Retellings o f Guy's Legend
- Guy's Porridge Pot and The Dun Cow (1808/9)
- Pantomime (1841), Sir Guy de Guy (1854)
- Grace Greenwood, Merrie England (1855/1908)
- Dr. Doran, Knights and Their Days (1856)
- 7. Local Warwickshire Hero
- An Historical and Descriptive Account (1815/17)
- Warwick Castle: A Poem (1846)
- Pickering & Courthope, Rous Roll (1845/59)
- Histories o f Noble Br itish Families (1846)
- J. Tom Burgess, Historic Warwickshire (1876/93)
- Cooke's Guides and Others
- CHAPTER EIGHT APOTHEOSIS AND DECLINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 1. Warwick Castle and Its Earls (1903) Warwick Pageant of 1906
- 2. G.H. Gerould, Sir Guy of Warwick (1905/12)
- 3. H.E. Marshall, Stories of Guy of Warwick (1906)
- 4. Collections o f Tales and Romances
- Andrew Lang, The Red Romance Book (1905)
- E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, Britain Long Ago (1906)/ Tales of Early England (1909-1926)
- F. J. Harvey Darton, A Wonder Book of Old Romance (1907)
- Joyce Pollard, Stories from Old English Romance (1912)
- 5. Between the Wars
- A Schooltext in the Twenties Dorothy Margaret Stuart, The Book of Chivalry and Romance (1933)
- 6. Guy for the Children after World War II
- Kathleen Fidler, True Tales o f Castles (1969)
- Jessica Claridge, Folk Tales, Myths and Legends (1971)
- Margaret Hodges, Knight Prisoner (1976)
- 7. Twentieth-century Guidebooks
- 8. A Hero o f Folktale in the Late Twentieth Century
- Eric Swift, Folk Tales of the East Midlands (1954)
- Roy Palmer, The Folklore o f Warwickshire (1976)
- Merlin Price, Folktales & Legends of Warwickshire (1982)
- Guy in Restaurant and Public House