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Joan of Arc
The Life of a French Cultural Icon
Inbunden, 2025
1499 kr
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Traces contemporary and later reception of Joan of Arc, examining how cultural beliefs and conventions have shaped her story.Joan of Arc stands out as one of the most recognized historical figures of medieval Europe. Learned writings as well as popular imagination, from the Middle Ages to today, …
Fashion in Medieval France
Inbunden, 2007
1250 kr
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Twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval French texts reveal the presence of a developed fashion system long before the previously accepted birth of Western fashion in the mid-fourteenth century.How are we to distinguish between a culture organized around fashion, and one where the desire for novel …
Medieval Warrior Aristocracy
Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred
Inbunden, 2007
1276 kr
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A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture.The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and …
Old French Narrative Cycles
Heroism between Ethics and Morality
Inbunden, 2010
1424 kr
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Detailed readings of four major medieval cycles.This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is …
Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne
Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents
Inbunden, 2010
2270 kr
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A queen who helped define the cultural landscape of her era.As duchess of Brittany [1491-1514] and twice queen of France [1491-98; 1498-1514], Anne de Bretagne set a benchmark by which to measure the status of female authority in Europe at the dawn of the Renaissance. Although at times a …
Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes
Av Zrinka Stahuljak, Virginia Greene m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1424 kr
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An exciting reassessment of the works of Chrétien, making use of modern critical theory to test orthodox opinion.This co-written, multi-stranded book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of lively exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship …
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry
Av Julie Singer
Inbunden, 2011
1424 kr
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An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory.This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orléans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of …
Partonopeus de Blois: Romance in the Making
Av Penny Eley
Inbunden, 2011
1499 kr
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First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre.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 …
Illuminating the Roman d'Alexandre: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264
The Manuscript as Monument
Av Mark Cruse
Inbunden, 2011
1440 kr
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Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu.Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in …
Conte du Graal Cycle
Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval, the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance
Inbunden, 2012
1499 kr
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A new study of the continuations to Chrétien's Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature.Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge …
Marie de France: A Critical Companion
Av Sharon Kinoshita, Peggy McCracken
Inbunden, 2012
1424 kr
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This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the …
Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature
Renewal and Utopia
Inbunden, 2012
1424 kr
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An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts.Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement of …
Pèlerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville
Tradition, Authority and Influence
Av Marco Nievergelt, Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath
Inbunden, 2013
1424 kr
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New essays on the unjustly neglected Pèlerinage works by de Guileville, showing in particular its huge contemporary influence.The fourteenth-century French pilgrimage allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville (or "Digulleville") shaped late medieval and early modern European culture. Portions of the …
Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France
Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Av Daniel E Daniel O'Sullivan, Laurie Shepard
Inbunden, 2013
1357 kr
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The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume.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 …
Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World
Av Noah D Guynn, Zrinka Stahuljak
Inbunden, 2013
1424 kr
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An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence.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 …
Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
Inbunden, 2013
1276 kr
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A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular.The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the …
Marco Polo's Le Devisement du Monde
Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity
Av Simon Gaunt
Inbunden, 2013
1424 kr
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The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.Le Devisement du Monde (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as Marco Polo's Travels, is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European …
Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France
From Manuscript to Printed Book
Inbunden, 2014
1499 kr
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First comprehensive examination of the ways in which printers, publishers and booksellers adapted and rewrote Arthurian romance in early modern France, for new audiences and in new forms.Arthurian romance in Renaissance France has long been treated by modern critics as marginal - although …
Unsettling Montaigne
Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings
Inbunden, 2014
1499 kr
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Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais' innovative open-mindedness is at odds with the dogmatism and intolerance of their times, …
Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition
Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft
Inbunden, 2014
1946 kr
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A close examination of an important theme in Machaut's works.A milestone in Machaut studies and in late-medieval French literature in general. Machaut, already considered the seminal figure in late-medieval poetics and music, here comes across in these respects more clearly than ever. Kelly also …
Marie de France: A Critical Companion
Av Sharon Kinoshita, Peggy McCracken
Häftad, 2014
343 kr
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This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the …
Telling the Story in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz
Av Kathryn Kathryn Duys, Elizabeth Emery m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1499 kr
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New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle, listen as they read, and exchange pen …
Anglo-Norman Lay of Haveloc
Text and Translation
Av Glyn S Burgess, Leslie C Brook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1440 kr
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New edition and modern English translation of the Anglo-Norman version of the story of Haveloc - one of the most popular of the Middle Ages.The story of Haveloc first appears in the oldest chronicle of the kings of England Britain, Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis, and it is found in a …
Sacred Fictions of Medieval France
Narrative Theology in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1150-1500
Inbunden, 2015
1968 kr
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A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.The story of the life of Christ and his mother was told in many texts in various French vernaculars (Anglo-Norman and Old Occitan, as well as Old and Middle French) between the middle of the twelfth century and the …
Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies
Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns
Av Laine E Doggett, Daniel E Daniel O'Sullivan
Inbunden, 2016
511 kr
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Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the …
Representing the Dead
Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France
Inbunden, 2016
1946 kr
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An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.Awarded a commendation in the Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book Prize for the best book published in 2016 by a scholar working in French studies in Britain or Ireland. Who am I when I am dead? Several …
Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure
A Translation
Inbunden, 2017
1946 kr
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Winner of the 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardFirst English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences.Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman …
Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy
Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio
Inbunden, 2017
1424 kr
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Ideas of translation and adaptation in the middle ages investigated through the lens of the Merlin tradition.The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with contradictions. Half human, half devil, he possesses a supernatural knowledge that allows him to prophesy the future. …
Marco Polo's Le Devisement du Monde
Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity
Av Simon Gaunt
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.Le Devisement du Monde (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as Marco Polo's Travels, is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European …
Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Machines, Madness, Metaphor
Av Julie Singer
Inbunden, 2018
1946 kr
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An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.At the turn of the fifteenth century it must have seemed to many French people that the world was going mad. King Charles VI suffered his first …
