Writings on love in the English Middle Ages / / edited by Helen Cooney
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| Titolo: |
Writings on love in the English Middle Ages / / edited by Helen Cooney
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XIII, 204 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/3543 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
| Love in literature | |
| Altri autori: |
CooneyHelen <1962->
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Reality of Courtly Love -- 2 Love before Troilus -- 3 Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance -- 4 "The unequal scales of love": Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus's De Amore and Some Later Texts -- 5 Troilus and Criseyde: Love in a Manner of Speaking -- 6 The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice -- 7 "Nat that I chalange any thyng of right": Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale -- 8 Some New Thing: The Floure and the Leafe and the Cultural Shift in the Role of the Poet in Fifteenth-Century England -- 9 Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine -- 10 Entrapment or Empowerment? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century -- 11 Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide diversity of texts and genres and their diverse perspectives on love. Attention is given to interaction between English writings and putative continental and international influences, with particular emphasis on the works of Chaucer. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Writings on love in the English Middle Ages |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36573-4 |
| 9786611365738 | |
| 1-4039-8353-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810959503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.