Description
Book Synopsis'Amys and Amylion' is a medieval poem of treason and forbidden love, of loyalty and suffering, of crime and miracles; The adventures of Amys and Amylion lie close to the sensibilities of the age, but the contemporary reader should find that the poem remains both entertaining and compelling in its own right.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- A. The Story
- B. The English Amys and Amylion
- 1. Plot and Characterization
- 2. Versification
- 3. The Language of Amys and Amylion
- C. The Texts of Amys and Aymlion
- 1. Manuscripts
- 2. Main literary differences between the English texts
- 3. Editions
- D. Select Bibliography
- TEXT
- APPENDIX 1: Summary of lines 123-320 of Rodulfus Tortarius, "Ad Bernardum"
- APPENDIX 2: Summary of Vita Amici et Amelii carissimorum
- APPENDIX 3: Summary of Ami et Amile (chanson de geste)
- APPENDIX 4: Summary of the Anglo-Norman Amys e Amillyoun
- GLOSSARY
