Chaucer and Becket's mother : "The man of law's tale," conversion, and race in the Middle Ages /
Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket's martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II's knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket's father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the sain...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Arc Humanities Press,
2023.
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Colección: | Medieval media cultures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION
- Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION
- Chapter 2 THOMAS BECKET'S MOTHER
- Chapter 3 THE BECKET LEGEND, THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE, AND CONVERSION
- Chapter 4 THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE IN CONTEXT
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX