The custom of the castle : from Malory to Macbeth
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PR428.C27 R67 1997
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xvii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-193) and index.
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The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chretien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French romance, flowered again when Italian and English authors adopted it during the century before Shakespeare's plays and the rise of the novel. Unlike other scholars who have dismissed it as pure literary convention, Charles Ross finds serious social purpose behind the custom of the castle. Ross explores the changing legal and cultural conceptions of custom in France, Italy, and England to uncover a broad array of moral issues in the many castle stories, where others have seen no more than a fanciful heroic test or an expression of courtly ideology.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ross, C. S. (1997). The custom of the castle: from Malory to Macbeth . University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ross, Charles Stanley. 1997. The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ross, Charles Stanley. The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Ross, C. S. (1997). The custom of the castle: from malory to macbeth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ross, Charles Stanley. The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth University of California Press, 1997.

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