Affections of the mind : the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval English literature / / Emma Lipton
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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. |
| ISBN: | 9780268085896 |
| 0268085897 | |
| 9780268085728 | |
| 0268085722 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911136131103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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