Inglewood Forest in Two Middle English Romances

• DOI: 10.1007/s11061-012-9307-3
• Publication Date: 2012-03-04T06:41:29Z
• Authors: Laura L. Howes
• Keywords: 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences

“The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Watheleyne” and “The Weddyng of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnall” both take place in a historical royal forest, Inglewood. The term ‘felle’ in “The Awntyrs” is re-intepreted here to refer to a forest that has been coppiced, a woodland-pasture. Both poems describe romance forest that was also recognizable to the poems’ original audiences as managed woodland.