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• Title: Resituating Romance: The Dialectics of Sanctity in MS Laud Misc. 108'S Havelok the Dane and Royal Vitae.
• Author : Parergon
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 246 KB

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Havelok the Dane has been edited and published as a single edition or as part of an anthology of romances numerous times since 1826, when Sir Frederic Madden discovered it collated with saints' lives in a manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library. (2) These well-ordered and carefully conceived editions, complete with scholarly apparatus (such as modern titles, tables of contents, introductions, glosses, indices, and footnotes), are, of course, vital to the dissemination and understanding of Middle English romance in general and of Havelok in particular. But they offer an aesthetic and interpretive experience of Havelok quite different from how a medieval audience would have read or heard it. When Havelok is considered within the context of its unique manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Miscellaneous 108, the secular nature of the romance gives way to elements that align it with the fundamental spirituality of the manuscript's overwhelming number of hagiographic texts, collectively referred to as the South English Legendary. (3) Especially when understood within the framework of the royal vitae of Oswald, Eadmund, Edward, and Kenelm, Havelok the Dane can more appropriately be understood as a hagiographic romance: King Apelwold of England functions as a holy ruler who prefigures the sanctity of the protagonist, while Havelok himself emerges as a Christ-like hero who shares more affinities with Christ and the saints than he does with other romance heroes. Havelok, in turn, exerts its own influence on the vitae by offering a more complete picture of royal sanctity. (4) Such hagiographic dimensions in the romance are brought to the foreground of the narrative when it is examined within its manuscript context; a return to the Laud manuscript allows us to gain a closer proximity to a medieval reading and listening experience of the poem. I. The Manuscript

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