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Introduction
The amazing variety of medieval romance continues to feed our imagination. This exhibition looks at how its compelling stories have inspired writers and artists across centuries. More »
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Richard the Lionheart on campaign
View this object »This miniature appears at the head of the romance Richard Coeur de Lyon, which recounts the...
Live storytelling: A Love Like Salt
Exhibition Information
Exhibition RoomBodleian Library
Oxford
OX1 3BG
28 Jan to 13 May 2012
Weekdays 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 4:30pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm
Entrance to the exhibition is FREE
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From Arthur's Round Table to Alexander’s conquests, the stories of romance still resonate. This book provides a richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its influence.
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Origin Stories
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The Fortunes of Sir Gawain
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Cities under Siege
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Empires of Romance: Arthur
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Romance and the Modern World
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Routes of Romance I
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The Percy Folio
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Empires of Romance: Alexander
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Composing, Writing, Preserving
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Romance and the Medieval World
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Wynkyn de Worde's Richard Coeur de Lyon
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The Knight's Farewell
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A Latin version of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
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Troilus in French
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Mark Twain’s Arthurian dystopia
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Roswal and Lillian
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A lover's gift
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Sloth's favourite stories
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The Red Book of Hergest
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William Morris writes a romance
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Guy of Warwick on stage
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The romance of Gamelyn, from a Canterbury Tales manuscript
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A chapbook version of Guy of Warwick
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Ponthus et la belle Sidoyne
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Fragments of the Apollonius of Tyre legend
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Moralizing a romance story
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Lancelot looks for a bed for the night
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Tristan's madness
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Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Sir Walter Scott as romance scholar
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The Wife of Bath and her Tale
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Richard the Lionheart on campaign
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The Percy Folio
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King Ponthus
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The Laud Troy Book
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C. S. Lewis’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Two meaningful rings
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The story of the lump child
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An enthusiast’s ‘Poetry Pasty’
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Iskander and the talking tree
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A ghostly encounter
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A shared book
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Geoffrey of Monmouth develops the myth of Arthur
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The earliest surviving English romances
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Chaucer's loathly lady
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Wax impression of the Grimsby 'Havelok' Seal
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Partonope of Blois
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The quest for the Holy Grail
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A Tristan tile from Chertsey Abbey
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The Lady of Shalott
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A personal collection of romances
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The death of Dara
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The God of Love on campaign
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An Essex Don Quixote: the story of Sir Billy of Billerecay
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The Song of Roland
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A romance blood-bath
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An English Don Quixote
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A rough draft and fair copy of Sir Firumbras
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The romance of Degaré
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As You Like It, from the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays
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Henry Irving as King Arthur
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Rate’s personal anthology
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The first book printed in English
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Tristan casket
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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A knight fights a wodewose
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The Savernake Horn
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Iskandar visits Mecca
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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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The Winchester Round Table
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Edward Burne-Jones's Malory
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A book of family reading and allegiance
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Thomas Percy's Reliques
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Gower’s book of advice for Alexander
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Arthurian coats of arms
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Ivory panels with romance scenes
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The Anglo-Norman Romance of Horn
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A Scottish book of Troy
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The Eglinton Tournament
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A cycle of Alexander romances
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Pauline Baynes illustrates C. S. Lewis
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Tristan the musician
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Alexander fragments in an Elizabethan notebook
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Richard Coeur de Lyon
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St Eustace horn
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A romantic assignation
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Rossetti, Lancelot's Vision of the Sanc Grael
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A lover's confession
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A scatological ballad
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Ariosto, Orlando furioso
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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John Hardyng's Chronicle
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Dante imagines the dangers of romance
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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
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The eagle and child and the Stanley family
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Spenser, The Faerie Queene
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Quarto texts of Pericles
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The Eagle and Child pub
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A collection of imperilled cities
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Romance scenes in a psalter
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The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell