Book Description
A wide overview of court culture in the middle ages.
Author : International Courtly Literature Society. Congress
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
A wide overview of court culture in the middle ages.
Author : Keith Busby
Publisher :
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
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Author : C. Stephen Jaeger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0812200896
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Argues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Author : Andreas (Capellanus.)
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Courtly love
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Author : Rita Nakashima Brock
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807067505
"Saving Paradise" offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution.
Author : Emma Cayley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199290261
Alain Chartier was one of medieval France's most influential writers, but has been overlooked by modern criticism. This is the first full-length study of his work in its cultural context. It reconsiders the French verse debates in particular, based on their material context of transmission and on similarities with his French and Latin prose works.
Author : Anna Baldwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137595825
This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, it introduces the reader to a diverse range of authors writing for a fast-developing readership of both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a group of genres primarily associated with a particular social class – from the Drama and Saints' Lives accessible to the illiterate, to the sophisticated Romances of Love savoured by the aristocracy and the Court. Lively historical narratives place each group of texts in their social, political and cultural contexts. Significant or typical texts are given more detailed analysis that includes critical issues and questions to guide the reader's own approach, and each section is supported by a detailed bibliography of further reading.
Author : Monica L. Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271076453
Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to observe: just why is clothing so important in twelfth-century French romance? This interdisciplinary book explores how writers of this era used clothing as a signifier with multiple meanings for many narrative purposes. Clothing figured prominently in twelfth-century France, where exotic fabrics and furs came to define a social elite. Monica Wright shows that representations of clothing are not mere embellishments to the text; they help form the textual weave of the romances in which they appear. This book is about how these descriptions are constructed, what they mean, and how clothing becomes an active part of romance composition—the ways in which writers use it to develop and elaborate character, to advance or stall the plot, and to structure the narrative generally.
Author : Wendy Pfeffer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3111268128
This volume offers a new critical edition with facing English translation and a detailed study of the medieval manual of dietetics Occitan Health Advice dating from the 13th century and probably compiled in the milieu of Montpellier’s university. This Advice on health and well-being is a unique example of medical writing: composed in Occitan (formerly called Old Provençal), the vernacular language of southern France; it provided a wealth of medical information and guidance for a literate nonspecialist reader interested in a healthful life. This Advice will interest medical historians, literary scholars, and linguists, as well as readers curious about the Middle Ages, for all of whom it provides invaluable information on medieval daily life, dietary regimen, and healthy habits.
Author : Logan E. Whalen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813215099
Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory presents the first exhaustive treatment of the rhetorical use of description and memory in all the narrative works of the late 12th-century poet, Marie de France--the first woman to compose literary texts in French.