The romance of the Stanleys: regional and national imaginings in the Percy Folio

Byrne, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7211-7118 and Flood, V. (2015) The romance of the Stanleys: regional and national imaginings in the Percy Folio. Viator, 46 (1). pp. 327-351. ISSN 0083-5897 doi: 10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.103512

Abstract/Summary

This article investigates a body of early Tudor poetry associated with the Stanley Earls of Derby, preserved in the Percy Folio (British Library, Additional MS 27879). It argues that the Lancashire and Cheshire authors of these poems modified strategies of national address, rooted in a historical and prophetic tradition we can trace back to Geoffrey of Monmouth, to construct a clear regional identity centred on the dynastic mythology of the Stanley family. The Galfridian Stanley-ite mythology of this period presents a significant counterpart to contemporary political historical and prophetic treatments of the Tudor accession. This provides an important new literary-historical context for our understanding of the Percy Folio romance "The Turke and Sir Gawain".

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/63945
Identification Number/DOI	10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.103512
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature
Publisher	Brepols
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