Romance
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Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner [Hardback]
Daniel E. O'Sullivan (Editor); Laurie Shepard (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781843843351
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, ... .... Learn More -
Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World [Hardback]
Noah D. Guynn (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843843375
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The concept of medieval historiography as "usable past" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of medieval historiographical texts lies not only in the factual information the texts contain bu... .... Learn More -
Authorship and First-Person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England [Hardback]
Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843843139
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author's role, since the protagonist who claims to compose the narrative al... .... Learn More
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"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries [Hardback]
Jody Enders (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9780812243239
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Presents, for the first time in English translation twelve bawdy French farces from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Blending slapstick, satire, scatological humour and dirty jokes, they offer a unique insight into everyday life in the la... .... Learn More
Dante in Love [Hardback]
A.N. Wilson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781848879492
Published by : Atlantic Books
A.N. Wilson's book serves as a fine introduction to Dante, mixing biography with a detailed exposition of the political and literary background to his work, as well as discussion of its principal themes, and a look at his reputati... .... Learn More
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry [Hardback]
Julie Singer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843842729
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This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orleans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoral theory depends up... .... Learn More
Partonopeus de Blois: Romance in the Making [Hardback]
Penny Eley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843842743
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Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an opera (Massanet's Esclarmonde... .... Learn More
Chretien de Troyes in Prose: the Burgundian Erec and Cliges [Hardback]
Joan Tasker Grimbert (Editor); Carol J. Chase (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781843842699
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In the middle of the fifteenth century two anonymous writers 'translated' into prose Chretien de Troyes's first verse romances, Erec and Cliges (dating from the twelfth century), for the circle of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. For a long... .... Learn More
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