LEADER 04213nam 2200697 450 001 9910464477703321 005 20210701014154.0 010 $a0-8122-9124-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291247 035 $a(CKB)3710000000199191 035 $a(OCoLC)889315242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10895001 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000131556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134971 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10008846 035 $a(PQKB)10977428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442390 035 $a(DE-B1597)449283 035 $a(OCoLC)51311472 035 $a(OCoLC)979756834 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442390 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10895001 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682383 035 $a(OCoLC)929158561 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000199191 100 $a20140723h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCourtly love undressed $ereading through clothes in medieval French culture /$fE. Jane Burns 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2002. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51101-2 311 0 $a0-8122-1930-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction The Damsel's Sleeve: Reading Through Clothes in Courtly Love --$tPART I Clothing Courtly Bodies --$t1 Fortune's Gown: Material Extravagance and the Opulence of Love --$tPART II Reconfiguring Desire: The Poetics of Touch --$t2 Amorous Attire: Dressing Up for Love --$t3 Love's Stitches Undone: Women's Work in the chanson de toile --$tPART III Denaturalizing Sex: Women and Men on a Gendered Sartorial Continuum --$t4 Robes, Armor, and Skin --$t5 From Woman s Nature to Nature's Dress --$tPART IV Expanding Courtly Space Through Eastern Riches --$t6 Saracen Silk: Dolls, Idols, and Courtly Ladies --$t7 Golden Spurs: Love in the Eastern World of Floire et Blancheflor --$tCoda: Marie de Champagne and the Matiere of Courtly Love --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aClothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns "reads through clothes" in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and symbolic space as well as social class. Reading through clothes reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of naturally derived categories of woman and man. The symbolic identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that brought luxury cloth to France. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aFrench literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aClothing and dress in literature 606 $aCourtly love in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aClothing and dress in literature. 615 0$aCourtly love in literature. 676 $a840.9/355 700 $aBurns$b E. Jane$f1948-$0282536 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464477703321 996 $aCourtly love undressed$9672505 997 $aUNINA