{"product_id":"dutch-romances-ii-9780859916059","title":"Dutch Romances II","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst English translation of the Dutch version of the Old French \u003ci\u003eFergus\u003c\/i\u003e, with accompanying text.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome time in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, Guillaume le clerc composed the story of Fergus, the \u003ci\u003ehomo silvaticus\u003c\/i\u003e who develops into a formidable knight; he was playing a literary game with Chrétien de Troyes, especially with his \u003ci\u003eConte du Graal\u003c\/i\u003e, and he created a romance in which the main character features as a \"new\" Perceval in a realistically depicted Scottish landscape. Shortly thereafter, perhaps as early as 1250, the story was translated into Middle Dutch. The \u003ci\u003eFerguut\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is an adaptation of the Old French \u003ci\u003eFergus\u003c\/i\u003e, rather than a slavish translation: although the translator followed his Old French original fairly faithfully for the first part, thereafter the poet - and most likely a second author - continued his work from memory, and clearly without the Old French version to hand. The result is a romance which possesses all the appeal of the Old French \u003ci\u003eFergus\u003c\/i\u003e, but at the same time reveals something of the Middle Dutch romancer's tastes and techniques.\u003cbr\u003e  This volume offers the first ever English translation, facing a new edition of the text, and will thus bring this important work to a wider audience; it is accompanied by an introduction, variants and rejected readings, and critical notes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  David F. Johnson is Professor of English, Florida State University; Geert H.M. Claassens is Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.","brand":"David F Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280806523131,"sku":"9780859916059","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859916059.jpg?v=1772483211","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dutch-romances-ii-9780859916059","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}