Knights in arms : prose romance, masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean trade in early modern England, 1565-1655 / Goran Stanivukovic.
"Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conce...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Knight and the Romance of Trade
- 1.Purchasing Kingdoms in the Eastern Mediterranean
- 2.The Knight on the Silk Road
- 3.The Marriage of Merchant Kingdoms in Romances about Men
- pt. II Intimacy, Sexuality, and the Queer Levant
- 4.Desire and Knightly Masculinity
- 5.Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, the Friend, the Favourite, and Homoerotic Romance.