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Author : Douglas Labaree Buffum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Le Roman de la Violette written by Douglas Labaree Buffum and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147665400X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Romance of the Violet and Other Wager Tales from Medieval France written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-stakes wager placed on a woman's virtue; men who spy on bathing women; tell-tale birthmarks; cross-dressing; dragons; tournaments; and aristocrats bursting into song--these features and more appear in the three stories translated here, all versions of the folktale known as "the wager tale." Such stories were especially popular in thirteenth-century France, when noblemen fulfilled their feudal duties far from home. Did their women remain faithful? A pressing question, for only female chastity guaranteed the legitimacy of heirs. This collection offers the first translations into English of The Romance of the Violet and The Count of Poitiers, along with a new version of The Tale of King Flore and the Fair Joan. The first paints a vivid portrait of thirteenth-century courtly life. The second, set in the eighth-century court of King Pepin, includes both a wager tale and a bride quest, the latter involving a shocking scene of female group nudity. Flore and Joan takes a different tack, presenting a clear-eyed heroine who overcomes daunting odds by posing as a man. These medieval tales portray strong women who gainsay social control of their bodies, thereby winning the respect of men--a scenario that resonates even today.
Author : Lawrence Francis Hawkins Lowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gérard de Nevers written by Lawrence Francis Hawkins Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Mullally
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351545779
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance written by Robert Mullally and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c. 1100 to c. 1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature. However, it has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. The carole was performed by all classes of society - kings and nobles, shepherds and servant girls. It is described as taking place both indoors and outdoors. Its central position in the life of the people is underlined by references not only in what we might call fictional texts, but also in historical (or quasi-historical) writings, in moral treatises and even in a work on astronomy. Dr Robert Mullally's focus is very much on details relevant to the history, choreography and performance of the dance as revealed in the primary sources. This methodology involves attempting to isolate the term carole from other dance terms not only in French, but also in other languages. Mullally's groundbreaking study establishes all the characteristics of this dance: etymological, choreographical, lyrical, musical and iconographical.
Author : Lawrence Francis Hawkins Lowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Gérard de Nevers written by Lawrence Francis Hawkins Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence F. H. Lowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Gérard de Nevers written by Lawrence F. H. Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521813716
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel written by Emma Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Henry Alfred Todd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guillaume de Dole written by Henry Alfred Todd and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521619363
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which focused on knights, it starts from the perspective of the woman reader/listener. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, it suggests that romances taught gender roles, often inviting readers to criticise and resist them.
Author : Heather J. Tanner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030013464
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400 written by Heather J. Tanner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on the premise that elite women in positions of authority were expected, accepted, and routine, these essays traverse the cities and kingdoms of France, England, Germany, Portugal, and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in order to illuminate women’s roles in medieval power structures. Without losing sight of the predominance of patriarchy and misogyny, contributors lay the groundwork for the acceptance of female public authority as normal in medieval society, fostering a new framework for understanding medieval elite women and power.
Author : Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512807117
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Song in the Story written by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song in the Story is the first full-length examination of lyric insertions in medieval French literature. Boulton's discussion of the function of the literary device is firmly placed in the context of contemporary rhetorical theory and the literary trends of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Author : Eliza Zingesser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747630
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Stolen Song written by Eliza Zingesser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.
Author : Keith Busby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027278032
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Courtly Literature written by Keith Busby and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Courtly Literature Society aims to promote the study of courtly literature, primarily, but not exclusively, of medieval Europe. The 45 articles selected here from the papers presented at the 5th Congress center around three themes: rhetoric and courtly literature, the audience of courtly literature, and courtly literature in a comparative perspective. There are contributions by specialists in Old French Literature on such diverse topics as Adenet le Roi, Rene d'Anjou, Le Bel Inconnu, and 15th-century prose chronicles; by Provencalists on the eternal topic of courtly love; by Anglicists on Chaucer, Henryson, Malory, and others; by Germanists on Heinrich von Morungen, der Schwanritter, and Walther von der Vogelweide; by Hispanists on La Celestina and the Historia Troiana; there are also articles on Italian, Dutch, and Scandinavian literature, and two relating to Persian and Arabic courtly texts.
Author : Adrian P. Tudor
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057191
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature written by Adrian P. Tudor and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The works analyzed span genres—epic, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography, fabliaux—and historical periods from the twelfth century to the late Middle Ages. Contributors examine the complexity of the notion of self through a wide range of lenses, from marginal characters to gender to questions of voice and naming. Studying a variety of texts—including Conte du Graal, Roman de la Rose, Huon de Bordeaux, and the Oxford Roland—they conceptualize the Other Within as an individual who simultaneously exists within a group while remaining foreign to it. They explore the complex interactions between and among individuals and groups, and demonstrate how identity can be imposed and self-imposed not only by characters but by authors and audiences. Taken together, these essays highlight the fluidity and complexity of identity in medieval French texts, and underscore both the richness of the literature and its engagement with questions that are at once more and less modern than they initially appear. Contributors: Adrian P. Tudor | Kristin L. Burr | William Burgwinkle | Jane Gilbert | Francis Gingras | Sara I. James | Douglas Kelly | Mary Jane Schenck | James R. Simpson | Jane H.M. Taylor
Author : Regina Psaki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042962722X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole written by Regina Psaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the "realistic romance" in Old French literature.
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108807674
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well as its relationship to the Mediterranean world, race, gender and the emotions, among many other topics. Providing fresh perspectives on the first pan-European literary movement, essays range across a broad geographical area, including England, France, Italy, Germany and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as a varied linguistic spectrum, including Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish. Exploring the celebration of chivalric ideals and courtly refinements, the volume excavates the tensions and traumas lying beneath decorous surface appearances. An introduction, bibliography of texts and translations as well as chapter-by-chapter reading lists complete this essential guide.
Author : Sylvia Huot
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501746677
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book From Song to Book written by Sylvia Huot and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics. Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles.
