Risorgimento. Esperienze ed insegnamenti.

Livorno, La Nuova Frontiera 1976, cm.13x20, pp.120, brossura Esempl.in ottimo stato. Ex libris applic.alla prima pag.bianca.

Cambridge, D.S.Brewer 1993, cm.16x24, pp.XII,163, legatura ed. By examining the development of Middle English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century royal-baronial conflict, this book assumes a new historical perspective. Friction between Plantagenet kings and dissident barons contributed to the development of the `problem of counsel' both as an actuality and as a topos in the literature of the period. Rule by counsel, an ideal which informs medieval English government at every level, is, the author argues, central to the ethos of Middle English romance. The procedural formula of `counsel and strategy' is tested against a number of romances: Ywain and Gawain, Havelok, Gamelyn, Athelston, a selection of nine romances from the Auchinleck manuscript, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. By selecting these narratives Geraldine Barnes is able to approach the question of counsel from a number of different angles. This is a book which will stimulate considerable interest among scholars of medieval literature.

A guide to the collection. University of Washington Press 1981, cm.20x25, pp.226 illustrato bn. e a colori. brossura con copertina figurata a colori.