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Book Review

Volume 103 • Number 3

July 2004


 


The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance. Edited by Phillipa Hardman. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002. Pp. xi + 165. $75.

This book, carefully edited by Phillipa Hardman, brings together twelve papers delivered at one of the biennial conferences on "Romance in Medieval England." In her introduction, Hardman does her best to unite the essays around a common theme, the "matter of identity, " and succeeds to some extent by using the word "identity " in very different senses ("generic identity," "Chaucerian identity," "chivalric identity") and by using the word "obliquely " when none of these senses has any bearing on the contributor's interests. The truth is that these essays have very different concerns, and so the best way of giving an account of this volume is to discuss each piece individually.

Ad Putter
University of Bristol

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