Sir Amadace

Titre:	De Sir Amadace (ms. Princeton, expl.); Sir Amadace; Sir Amadas (éd. Weber)
Date:	Fin du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	778 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	[le début manque] Thoffe Y owe syche too. » Downe sate Sir Amadas and hee, and kast how that best myghte bee, both far and nere…
Explicit:	… Y dare hardly wele sey, thoffe thei haue not als tyte her wyll, yette shall they cum sumtyme thertyll and passe full wele away. Amen.
Voir aussi:	Amadas et Ydoine; Richars li Biaus

Manuscrits

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.3.1, f. 68r-84r [⇛ Description]
Princeton, University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Taylor Medieval, 9, f. 16r-34v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by Henry Weber, Edinburgh, Constable, 1810, 3 t. (ici t. 3, p. 241-275 et 376) [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an introduction and glossary. Edited from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P., by John Robson, London, Camden Society, 1842, xlv + 132 p. (ici p. 27-56 et 100-104) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an introduction and glossary. Edited from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P., by John Robson, New York et London, Johnson Reprint, 1968, xlv + 132 p. [IA]
Édition d'après le ms. de Princeton, dit « Ireland MS. ».
Brookhouse, John Christopher, "Sir Amadas," Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA), 1964. [PQ]
Sir Amadace and The Avowing of Arthur: Two Romances from the Ireland MS, edited by Christopher Brookhouse, København, Rosenkilde og Bagger (Anglistica, 15), 1968, 156 p.
Six Middle English Romances, edited with an introduction by Maldwyn Mills, London, Dent; Totowa, Rowman and Littlefield (Everyman's University Library, 1090), 1973, xxxiii + 224 p. [IA]
Réimpressions:
- Six Middle English Romances, edited with an introduction by Maldwyn Mills, London et Melbourne, Dent (Everyman Classics), 1988, xxxiii + 224 p. [IA]
- Six Middle English Romances, edited with an introduction by Maldwyn Mills, London, Dent; Rutland (VT), Tuttle (Everyman's Library), 1992, xxxiii + 224 p. [IA]
Amis and Amiloun; Robert of Cisyle; and Sir Amadace, edited by Edward E. Foster. Second edition, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts Series), 2007, vii + 130 p. [lib.rochester.edu]
Liste quasi complète: Database of Middle English Romance

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Early English Romances in Verse: Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Friendship, London, Chatto and Windus; New York, Duffield, 1908, xxiv + 184 p. (ici p. 49-67) [GB] [IA]

Études

Bohler, Danielle, « Béances de la terre et du temps: la dette et le pacte dans le motif du Mort reconnaissant au Moyen Âge », Littérature et anthropologie, L'homme, 111-112, 1989, p. 161-178. DOI: 10.3406/hom.1989.369155
Foster, Edward E., « Simplicity, complexity, and morality in four medieval romances », The Chaucer Review, 31, 1997, p. 407-419.
Harkins, Patricia, « Speaking dead in Sir Amadace and the White Knight », Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 3:3, 1994, p. 62-71.
Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1963, viii + 350 p. [IA]
Éditions antérieures:
- Hibbard, Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances, New York, Oxford University Press, 1924, viii + 342 p. [HT] [IA]
- Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1960, viii + 350 p. [HT] [IA]
Hippe, Max, « Untersuchungen zu der mittelenglischen Romanze von Sir Amadas », Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Litteraturen, 81, 1888, p. 141-183. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Johnston, Michael, « Knights and merchants unite: Sir Amadace, the Grateful Dead, and the moral exemplum tradition », Neophilologus, 92:4, 2008, p. 735-744. DOI: 10.1007/s11061-008-9107-y
Putter, Ad, « Gifts and commodities in Sir Amadace », Review of English Studies, 51, 2000, p. 371-394.
Williams, Elizabeth, « Sir Amadace and the undisenchanted bride: the relation of the Middle English romance to the folktale tradition of the "grateful dead" », Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance, éd. R. Field, Cambridge, Brewer, 1999, p. 57–70.

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