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It compares Partonope of Blois from the Middle English romance Partonope and Bovo d’Antona from a Yiddish romance tradition, focusing on how each hero’s class identity is constructed through geographical and social environments. The analysis highlights two divergent templates linking setting and social identity, exposing contradictions in portrayals of both figures as self-made men and as products of their class.",{"@graph":63,"@context":118},[64,80,101],{"@type":65,"itemListElement":66},"BreadcrumbList",[67,71,74,77],{"item":68,"name":69,"@type":70,"position":9},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":72,"name":10,"@type":70,"position":73},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/",2,{"item":75,"name":36,"@type":70,"position":76},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/forms/",3,{"item":78,"name":59,"@type":70,"position":79},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/interfaces-14-setting-and-social-status-in-partonope-and-bovo-dantona/204764/",4,{"url":78,"name":59,"@type":81,"image":82,"author":87,"headline":59,"publisher":90,"fileFormat":93,"inLanguage":57,"description":61,"dateModified":94,"datePublished":95,"encodingFormat":93,"isAccessibleForFree":96,"interactionStatistic":97},"DigitalDocument",{"url":83,"@type":84,"width":85,"height":86},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/interfaces-14-setting-and-social-status-in-partonope-and-bovo-dantona/204764.png","ImageObject",442,249,{"name":88,"@type":89},"Maya Linwood","Person",{"url":68,"name":91,"@type":92},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-30","2026-09-05",true,{"@type":98,"interactionType":99,"userInteractionCount":47},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":100},"ViewAction",{"@type":102,"mainEntity":103},"FAQPage",[104,110,114],{"name":105,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":107},"What central question does the essay address about social identity in medieval romance?","Question",{"text":108,"@type":109},"How representations of social identities shift based on the different settings protagonists must move through during their journeys.","Answer",{"name":111,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":112},"Which two heroes and texts does the article compare?",{"text":113,"@type":109},"Partonope of Blois from the Middle English romance Partonope and Bovo from the Yiddish romance Bovo d’Antona.",{"name":115,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does setting relate to social status in the protagonists’ identity quests?",{"text":117,"@type":109},"Settings shape class identity by either conferring status through their social configuration or being molded by heroes to fit their position.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":78,"og:type":120,"og:title":59,"og:site_name":91,"og:description":61},"article",{"robots":122,"canonical":78},"index,follow",{"doc_id":124,"site_id":56},204764,1792183521,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":127},{"doc_id":124,"user_id":128,"nickname":88,"user_avatar":129,"doc_module":9,"category_id":35,"category_name":36,"doc_title":59,"doc_description":61,"doc_content":130,"file_id":131,"file_url":132,"file_type":133,"file_size":134,"view_count":47,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":9,"is_downloadable":9,"audit_status":9,"page_count":135,"language":136,"language_code":57,"site_id":56,"html_lang":57,"table_of_contents":137,"faqs":138,"seo_title":139,"seo_description":61,"update_tm":140,"read_time":141},962084928432,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","Abstract  \nKeywords  \nmiriam ed lich-mut h and lucie ka emp fer  \nBorn That Way? Setting and Social Status as Intersecting Constituents of Identity in the Middle English Partonope and the Yiddish Bovo d’Antona  \nThis essay raises the question of how the representation of social identities in romances of the late medieval period shifts in line with the different settings that the protagonists must navigate in the course of their journeys. It compares the two very different figures of Partonope of Blois, from the eponymous Middle English romance, and Bovo, from the Yiddish romance Bovo d’Antona, in order to investigate how the construction of their social identities intersects with the geographical and social settings that they inhabit. In doing so, this study reveals two varying and counterintuitive templates for how social identity is shaped by setting, thereby shedding light on the contradictions inherent in the representation of Bovo and Partonope as both ‘self-made men’ and products of their class.  \nSpace, Medieval Romance, Social Identity, Setting, Class.  \nIntroduction  \nA central tenet of the social structure envisaged by medieval romance is that the noble and heroic knights who give the tales their names were born that way. More explicitly put: they were born noble and heroism is therefore tobe expected of them, thereby justifying their ongoing high social standing. The assurance that noble birth and a high social standing always go together is the central premise that underlies the testing and proving of the hero’s noble status. Thus, a recurring romance plotline involves putting the concept of nobility  \nInterfaces 14 · 2025 · DOI 10.54103/interfaces-14-04 · ISSN 2421-5503  \nEdlich-Muth, Kaempfer · Setting and Social Status in Partonope and Bovo d’Antona  \nby birth to the test by playing out what happens when a consistent high social status is not simply conferred upon a character at birth, but must be won or regained by a high-born protagonist proving themselves to have the noble features their high birth would imply. The romance hero’s identity quest, which can take different forms, such asthe recuperation of his rightful social status or a simple coming-of-age narrative arc, is intrinsically linked with setting. Not only is the quest often embodied spatially, through a pattern of exile-andreturn, but settings also playa decisive role in the construction of the protagonists’ shifting social identity. In this article we will consider two examples of knights whose social identity is at issue throughout their tales. We will aim to understand how the construction of their social identity interacts with the settings that they inhabit as their stories unfold. In particular, we will consider the role that setting plays in shaping and exploring their class identity asknightly heroes.  \nSpace is a defining feature of romance, a narrative genre built on the necessity of the hero leaving his home setting in order to find or construct ‘himself’ within new and different, foreign spaces. In many romances, readers are left in little doubt that the spaces referenced by the texts are at once real and symbolic. A forest, for example, is areal geographical space and, as the hunting ground of the aristocracy, itis a recognisable social space where young nobles can construct their belonging to a certain class. It is also, however, a liminal space that represents wilderness and adventure, in which the hero either crosses onto an otherworld or deconstructs his social status though isolation and madness (Saunders). The settings of romance are not static but plastic spaces which “intersect with human behavior” shaping identities and, in turn, being shaped and transformed by characters (Scott 423). In an exploration of the inter-relation between setting and class identity, it is crucial to recognize both the material and social configurations of space. As Henri Lefebvre has argued in The Production of Space, space is produced by and product","cbCaioDPBc543hzp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioDPBc543hzp","pdf",274814,23,"English","# Introduction\n## Nobility as a romance premise\n## Setting as spatial and symbolic structure\n## Space produced by social relations\n## Setting and class identity in two romances","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the essay address about social identity in medieval romance?\",\"answer\":\"How representations of social identities shift based on the different settings protagonists must move through during their journeys.\"},{\"question\":\"Which two heroes and texts does the article compare?\",\"answer\":\"Partonope of Blois from the Middle English romance Partonope and Bovo from the Yiddish romance Bovo d’Antona.\"},{\"question\":\"How does setting relate to social status in the protagonists’ identity quests?\",\"answer\":\"Settings shape class identity by either conferring status through their social configuration or being molded by heroes to fit their position.\"}]","Interfaces - 14 - Setting and Social Status in Partonope and Bovo d’Antona | PDF",1788575421,8]