LEADER 04180nam 22006855 450 001 9911040923703321 005 20251108120407.0 010 $a3-032-04261-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-04261-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32405854 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32405854 035 $a(CKB)42039046300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-04261-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9942039046300041 100 $a20251108d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWounded Knights $eViolence, Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love /$fby Alfred Thomas 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (298 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 311 08$a3-032-04260-7 327 $a1. Introduction: Violence; Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love -- 2. Bad Blood: The Spectral Jew, the Transgressive Woman, and Mimetic Rivalry in Hartmann von Aue?s Der arme Heinrich and Erec -- 3. The Shattered Mirror: Male Subjectivity and Sadomasochism in the Courtly Love Lyrics of Heinrich von Morungen -- 4. The Murderous Mirror: The Love Potion and the Cave of Lovers in Gottfried von Strassburg?s Tristan -- 5. The Saint and the Heretic: Violence and Deviance in the Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria -- 6. Death and the Maiden: Mourning, Melancholy, and Misogyny in Der Ackermann aus Böhmen and Pearl -- 7. The Return of the Medieval Repressed: Violence and Courtly Love in Modern Fiction and Horror Film. 330 $aThis broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages. Comparative and transnational in scope, it explores the role of masculinity and violence in the romance, love lyric and saints? lives written in French, English, German, and Czech between 1200 and 1400. Whereas conventional studies of medieval courtly love have emphasized the positive and idealistic relationship between the knight and the lady, this book highlights the dark side of medieval masculinity and how displaced male violence toward women and male masochism in these texts are transfigured into more explicit violence in modern horror films. Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His most recently published books include The Czech Legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria: The Text and its Context (2024), Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 (2022), The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Art and Literature in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet (2020), Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights (2018), and Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience (2015). 410 0$aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aFiction 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aTelevision broadcasting 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aFilm and Television Studies 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting. 615 14$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aFilm and Television Studies. 676 $a392.60940902 700 $aThomas$b Alfred$029738 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911040923703321 996 $aWounded Knights$94456760 997 $aUNINA