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Book SynopsisAs the first study of the manuscripts and readership of the earliest surviving romance of Alexander the Great in England, this book discusses each codex and its unique text informed by current attitudes towards Alexander and examines his reception as a model of imperial authority or failure.
Trade Review"Stone’s monograph is grounded in historicism and lively in its address to English social constituencies (baronial, regnal, clerical, courtly-dynastic). It opens the door to further investigation of an understudied but central work, and will be of interest to scholars of romance, text-networks, insular literary history, and codicology." -- Christine Chism, University of California, Los Angeles *
Studies in the Age of Chaucer *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading and Reconstructing the Anglo-Norman Alexander 1 Alexander Romance in Twelfth-Century Europe 2 Alexander in Anglo-Norman England: The Latin Texts 3 The Roman de toute chevalerie: Sources, Influences, and Innovations 4 The Two Deaths of Alexander in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O. 9. 34 5 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS 24364: Alexander, Chivalry, nd the Wars of Edward I 6 Moralizing Alexander in Durham Cathedral Library MS C.IV.27B 7 From Anglo-Norman to Middle English Alexander Romance Afterword: The Advent of the Continental Alexander Notes Works Cited Index
