King Robert of Sicily: A New Manuscript
| Autor: | Lillian Herlands Hornstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
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| Zdroj: | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 78:453-458 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1530 0030-8129 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/460722 |
| Popis: | The verse romance King Robert of Sicily (King Roberd of Cisyle) is the Middle English version of a well-known legend about The Proud King Humiliated (Deposed)—an arrogant and boastful king whose throne is taken over by an angel-substitute until the beggared monarch learns proper humility. Told of the Emperor Jovinian in the Latin Gesta Romanorum, the story had also appeared in other contexts in almost all the vernacular languages of Europe before the end of the fifteenth century. The tale must have been especially appealing to the English, to judge from the number of extant manuscripts heretofore known, nine manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This paper calls attention to still another manuscript, folio 2 of BM Additional MS. 34801. It has, strangely enough, never been noticed, although its existence was recorded in a catalogue over sixty years ago. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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