The medieval warrior aristocracy : gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred /

The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages [10th-12th centuries] among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices can...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cowell, Andrew, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : D.S. Brewer, 2007.
Colección:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 6.
Temas:
To 1500
Heroes in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Aristocracy (Social class) > History > To 1500.
Ceremonial exchange > History > To 1500.
Identity (Psychology)
Héros dans la littérature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Identité (Psychologie)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Ceremonial exchange.
Literature, Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The power of giving
  • The symbolic constitution of the giving subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard
  • Violence and "taking": towards a generalized symbolic economy
  • Taking an identity: The poem of the Cid
  • The sacred kept
  • The hero, gratuity and alterity: The song of Roland
  • The supplemental hero: Raoul of Cambrai
  • Female integrity and masculine desires in The Nibelungenlied
  • Fractured identities, and the solution of chivalry: William of Orange
  • Conclusion: a new, different warrior aristocracy.

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