Writings on love in the English Middle Ages /
This book offers a multi-faceted view on the wide variety of late-medieval writings on love with which it deals and seeks to respect and reflect their great diversite. Hence it represents an important and timely modification of the rather monolithic views on medieval writings on love which have prev...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Derek Pearsall
- Introduction / Helen Cooney
- The Tenacity of Courtly Love / Bernard O'Donoghue
- Love before Troilus / Helen Cooper
- Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romances / Corinne Saunders
- "The Unequal Scales of Love": Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Some Other Texts / John Scattergood
- "Swich a so my wit kan nat diffyne": Defining Loves in Troilus and Criseyde / Barry Windeatt
- Passion, Interiority, and Philosophical Debate in Troilus / Helen Phillips
- To see and Not To Be Seen: "The Flower and the Leafe" and Social and Aesthetic Crisis in the Fifteenth Century / Helen Cooney
- The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice / Alastair Minnis
- "Nat that I chalange any thing of right": Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale / Neil Cartlidge
- Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine / Martha Driver
- Entrapment or Empowement? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century / Carol M. Meale
- Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland / Priscilla Bawcutt.