Essays in Medieval Culture /
Bringing together a collection of this distinguished medievalist's most important and controversial work, heretofore scattered and frequently inaccessible, this book constitutes both an appropriate introduction for students new to medieval studies and a convenient compendium for scholars establ...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Course Book |
Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
569 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Author's Introduction
- I
- Historical Criticism
- The Doctrine of Charity in Medieval Literary Gardens: A Topical Approach Through Symbolism and Allegory
- Some Medieval Literary Terminology, with Special Reference to Chrétien de Troyes
- Some Observations on Method in Literary Studies
- The Allegorist and the Aesthetician
- II
- Certain Theological Conventions in Mannyng's Treatment of the Commandments
- Frequency of Preaching in Thirteenth Century England
- III
- Two Poems from the Carmina Burana
- Five Poems by Marcabru
- The Partitura Amorosa of Jean de Savoie
- Chrétien's Cligés and the Ovidian Spirit
- The Idea of Fame in Chretien's Cligés
- Love Conventions in Marie's Equitan
- IV
- The Pearl as Symbol
- The "Heresy" of The Pearl
- The Question of Typology and the Wakefield Mactacio Abel
- V
- The Historical Setting of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts
- Chaucer's Franklin and his Tale
- Some Disputed Chaucerian Terminology
- VI
- In Foraminibus Petrae: A Note on Leonardo's "Virgin of the Rocks"
- Sidney's Metaphor of the Ulcer
- A Medievalist Looks at Hamlet
- Pope and Boethius
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index