Courtesy and Politeness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A close reading of three selected passages of the Middle English alliterative romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight provides a detailed picture of fictional and fairy-tale manifestations of courtly and polite behaviour in Middle English, a period that imported many new terms of courtesy and polite...

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Main Author: Jucker Andreas H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-12-01
Series:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0007