Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages

Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses , identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, across medieval Europe. Tracing its development from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, chapters examine Icelandic sagas, Old Spanish heroic epic poetry, courtly romances, early modern French and German prose novels, and late medieval short verse and prose narratives as well as the work of medie