A richly woven tapestry of image and text. A great resource and a wonderful read.
Simon Armitage This is an altogether delightful book. It is hard to imagine a book that does its job, of introducing medieval romance and its after-life to the general reader, more perfectly.
Derek Pearsall Evangelicals and literary critics have looked sternly askance at ... Read moremedieval romance for about six hundred years. Entirely undaunted, medieval romances pass insouciantly across borders of time, geography, social class and gender with their passports of pleasure. Nicholas Perkins and Alison Wiggins here allow us to join those journeys of romance. Their lightly worn, precise scholarship takes us inside the books of these marvellous stories. This is a gorgeous, utterly delightful book.
James Simpson This book is at once an informative and lively introduction to all aspects of romance
medieval and modern, its writers and readers, in manuscript and print
and a treasure-trove of some of the Bodleian's visually most remarkable holdings. Newcomers to the subject will find it easily accessible, and scholars will discover new and intriguing things.
Helen Cooper 'A stimulating journey through the subject that will foster interest and inclination to pursue study of it beyond the exhibition and this book. Highly recommended.'
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