IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Concealing identity: the use of disguise in some Middle English romances and their Anglo-Norman analogues
Autor/es:
DUMAS, MARÍA
Lugar:
Leeds
Reunión:
Congreso; International Medieval Congress 2012; 2012
Institución organizadora:
University of Leeds
Resumen:
The Anglo-Norman Boeve de Haumtone and the Roman de Horn, as well as their Middle English rewritings, Bevis of Hampton and King Horn, include several disguise episodes. I shall focus on those scenes in which the hero, coming back from exile, assumes the appearance of a pilgrim in order to gain access to his lover and test her loyalty. Although throughout these passages, the hero?s descent to the lower strata of the social scale is certainly emphasized, the specific choice of the ?escalvine? and the ?bourdon? is neither fortuitous nor naive. On the contrary, it turns out to be of much use, not only on the diegetic level, granting the heroes complete immunity to encroach on their enemies? territory, but also on the extra-diegetic level, providing the poets with a convenient figure in which to mirror their own role as storytellers.