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Autore: | Lipton Emma <1964-> |
Titolo: | Affections of the mind : the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval English literature / / Emma Lipton |
Pubblicazione: | Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/3543 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Marriage in literature | |
Marriage - Political aspects - England - History - To 1500 | |
Marriage - Religious aspects | |
Authority in literature | |
Social values in literature | |
Social groups in literature | |
Literature and society - England - History - To 1500 | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval culture -- Married friendship : an ideology for the franklin -- Public voice, private life: marriage and masculinity in John Gower's Traite -- Performing reform : marriage, lay piety, and sacramental theater in the N-town Mary plays -- The marriage of love and sex : Margery Kempe and bourgeois lay identity. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues that the late medieval literature of sacramental marriage subverted aristocratic and clerical traditions of love and marriage. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Affections of the mind |
ISBN: | 0-268-08589-7 |
0-268-08572-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812039803321 |
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