The medieval French Alexander /

"Alexander the Great was one of the legendary Nine Worthies in the medieval canon of ancient and modern heroes, and medieval writers exploited his legend in a wide variety of literary and didactic texts. Addressing the classical legacy to the Middle Ages as expressed in four centuries of vernac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maddox, Donald, Sturm-Maddox, Sara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Colección:SUNY series in medieval studies.
Temas:
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Romances > History and criticism.
Alexandre, > le Grand, > 356-323 av. J.-C > Romans, nouvelles, etc. > Histoire et critique.
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C
To 1500
French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Littérature française > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
French literature.
Romances.
Alexanderliteratuur.
Bellettrie.
Frans.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The prologue to the Historia de preliis: a pagan model of spiritual struggle / Michel Zink
  • The raid on Gaza in Alexandre de Paris's romance / Emmanuèle Baumgartner
  • Alexander's Clergie / Douglas Kelly
  • Alexander and Aristotle in the French Alexander Romances / Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
  • Alexander's Gabs / Franc̦ois Suard
  • "Mout est proz e vassaus"/"Mout es corteis": Vasselage and courtesy in the Roman d'Alexandre / Rupert T. Pickens
  • "A paine a on bon arbre de malvaise raïs": counsel for kings in the Roman d'Alexandre / William W. Kibler
  • Giving fiefs and honor: largesse, avarice, and the problem of "feudalism" in Alexander's testament / Stephen D. White
  • Take the world by prose: modes of possession in the Roman d'Alexandre / Michelle R. Warren
  • Alexander and Caesar in the Faits des romains / Catherine Croizy-Naquet
  • Alexander the Great as the icon of perfection in the epigones of the Roman d'Alexandre (1250-1450): the Utilitas of the ideal prince / Martin Gosman
  • Ekphrasis and memory in the fourteenth-century Parfait du paon / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
  • Conquering Alexander: Perceforest and the Alexandrian tradition / Michelle Szkilnik
  • Alexander amoroso: rethinking Alexander in the Roman de Perceforest / Jane H.M. Taylor
  • From Alexander to Marco Polo, from text to image: the marvels of India / Laurence Harf-Lancner
  • "Codices manuscriptos nudos tenemus": Alexander and the new codicology / Keith Busby.

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