Background
Douglas David Roy Owen was born on November 17, 1922, in Norton, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
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University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
The University of Nottingham where Douglas Owen studied.
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Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where Douglas Owen received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
The University of Nottingham where Douglas Owen studied.
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Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where Douglas Owen received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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The Evolution of the Grail Legend
https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Grail-Legend-D-Owen/dp/0707300274
1968
The Legend of Roland: A Pageant of the Middle Ages
https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Roland-Pageant-Middle-Ages/dp/0714815462
1973
Noble Lovers
(The book Noble Lovers contains romantic love stories in M...)
The book Noble Lovers contains romantic love stories in Medieval Europe.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Lovers-D-D-R-Owen/dp/0714816566
1975
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend
(Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend tells the story of...)
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend tells the story of one of the most influential figures of the twelfth century, Eleanor of Aquitaine, successively queen of France and of England. In tracing her life story the author reassesses her political importance during the reigns of her husband Henry II and her sons, Richard the Lionheart and John, and aims to separate the true historical Eleanor from the Eleanor of legend.
https://www.amazon.com/Eleanor-Aquitaine-D-R-Owen/dp/0631201017
1993
The Romance of Reynard the Fox
(The comic and bawdy adventures of arch-trickster Reynard ...)
The comic and bawdy adventures of arch-trickster Reynard the fox were related by a succession of French poets, mainly anonymous, in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their individual tales, known as 'branches', were composed in a variety of styles, but share a mischievous sense of humor. Endowed with human vices and rather fewer virtues, the animals play out a thinly disguised social comedy, in which all the orders from the nobility to the peasantry are lampooned, with hypocritical churchmen and rapacious farmers providing favorite targets. The Romance, full of shrewd observation of rural life and animal behavior, is also a valuable source of information on the medieval world, its institutions, and its practices. This new translation conveys the racy wit of the original, and an enlightening introduction and clear notes involve the reader in the social, historical, and literary context.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Romance-Reynard-Fox-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192828010
1994
William the Lion: Kingship and Culture, 1143-1214
(This biography reviews the known facts of the life of Wil...)
This biography reviews the known facts of the life of William the Lion, Scotland's longest-reigning king, and presents them within the broad context of the country's early history and culture. While much of the story centers on the often brittle relationship with the English Plantagenets, Scotland emerges as a European power, respected not least for its now largely forgotten cultural flowering. This is demonstrated in the later chapters by an examination of a body of hitherto undervalued texts, notably a skit on the Grail legend. Set in Scotland, the romance was probably composed by a St Andrews' bishop for the court circle and can claim to be the country's earliest surviving vernacular work. This interdisciplinary approach, by juxtaposing established facts with literary interpretations, offers historians and the general reader with a new and more rounded view of both the domestic conditions and the reputation abroad of William the Lion's Scotland.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/William-Lion-1143-1214-Kingship-Culture/dp/1862320101
1997
Douglas David Roy Owen
Edit ProfileEducation
Douglas Owen, after serving as a navigation officer in the Royal Air Force, attended the University of Nottingham. Then he transferred to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1955.
Career
By 1955 Douglas Owen was already a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where he eventually became a professor of French in 1972, retiring in 1988. At St. Andrews he was also the founding editor of the Forum for Modem Language Studies, which had the unique distinction of being sued over copyright infringement by an Amsterdam pornography publication that used a similar title.
Much more important was Owen's work as a translator and editor of Medieval French literature and as an author of books such as The Evolution of the Grail Legend (1968), The Legend of Roland: A Pageant of the Middle Ages (1973), and Noble Lovers (1975). His most famous translations are The Song of Roland: The Oxford Text (1972) and The Romances of Chretien de Troyes (1985). Owen's last publications included Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend (1993), William the Lion: Kingship and Culture, 1143-1214 (1997), and his translation The Romance of Reynard the Fox (1994).
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William the Lion: Kingship and Culture, 1143-1214
(This biography reviews the known facts of the life of Wil...)
1997 -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend
(Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend tells the story of...)
1993 -
The Romance of Reynard the Fox
(The comic and bawdy adventures of arch-trickster Reynard ...)
1994 -
Noble Lovers
(The book Noble Lovers contains romantic love stories in M...)
1975 - The Evolution of the Grail Legend 1968
- The Legend of Roland: A Pageant of the Middle Ages 1973
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William the Lion: Kingship and Culture, 1143-1214
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United Kingdom
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1955
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1972 - 1988