TY  - BOOK
AU  - Field,Rosalind
AU  - Hardman,Phillipa
AU  - Sweeney,Michelle
TI  - Christianity and romance in medieval England
T2  - Christianity and culture : issues in teaching and research
SN  - 9781843842194 (acid-free paper)
AV  - PR 321 .C47 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Rochester, NY
PB  - D.S. Brewer
KW  - Romances, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christianity in literature
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Christianity and the matters of romance.  Medieval classical romances: the perils of inheritance / Helen Phillips ; Celticity and Christianity in medieval romance / Stephen Knight ; Crusading, chivalry and the Saracen world in insular romance / Phillipa Hardman and Marianne Ailes -- Issues and debates.  How Christian is chivalry? / Raluca L. Radulescu ; Magic and Christianity / Corinne Saunders ; Subverting, containing and upholding Christianity in medieval romance / K.S. Whetter -- Reading romances.  Female saints and romance heroines: feminine fiction and faith among the literate elite / Andrea Hopkins ; Athelstan or the Middle English Nativity of St Edmund / Rosaline Field ; Romance traditions and Christian values in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Derek Brewer ; Questioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: teaching the text through its medieval English Christian context / Michelle Sweeney ; Teaching Malory: a subject-centered approach / D. Thomas Hanks
N2  - The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture
ER  -