Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales

Herausgeber: Bovaird-Abbo, Kristin; Ridley Elmes, Melissa

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Produktbeschreibung

In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives, Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary, cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest to specialists and a general audience, alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780367751098
• ISBN-10: 0367751097
• Artikelnr.: 69893093

Autorenporträt

Melissa Ridley Elmes is Assistant Professor of English at Lindenwood University. Her research engages the literatures and cultures of the premodern British Isles and North Atlantic world. Kristin Bovaird-Abbo is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado. She teaches and researches medieval language and literature, particularly Middle English and Arthurian studies, with a particular interest in the effects of gender and class on the Arthurian character of Gawain in late Middle English romances.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 1
MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES AND KRISTIN BOVAIRD-ABBO
2 Grendel's Eucharist: An Outlaw's Last Supper 13
ERIC R. CARLSON
3 Food, Feasts, and Temperance: The Social Contracts of "Mete and Drink" in
The Tale of Gamelyn 30
RENÉE WARD
4 Bread Without Onions: Winning the Crusades through French Cuisine in
Honorat Bovet's 1398 Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun [Apparition of Master
Jean de Meun] 55
SYLVIA GROVE
5 Of Courtesy and Community: Food and Feasting in A Lytell Geste of Robyn
Hode 75
SHERRON LUX
6 The Preparation and Consumption of Food as Signifiers of Class and Gender
Identity in Selected Premodern
Texts and Examples of the Robin Hood Cinematic Canon 93
LORRAINE KOCHANSKE STOCK
7 "So Shall We Take Our Dinner Sweet": When the Greenwood Consumes the
Outlaw 127
MARYBETH RUETHER-WU
8 Robin Hood's Poached Feasting in Context: Poor Knights, Disguised Kings,
and Romance Parody in A Lytell
Geste of Robyn Hode 146
MARK TRUESDALE
9 The Poached Feast and the Kingly Blow: The Question of Courtesy in Late
Medieval King and Commoner Narratives 169
S. MELISSA WINDERS AND SARAH HARLAN-HAUGHEY
10 Acting Out(Law): Feasts, Outlawry, and Identity Constructions in Two
Shakespearean Comedies 199
MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES
11 Early Modern Fishing Practices and Seafood Culture in Robin Hood's
Fishing 222
JASON HOGUE
12 "Bread With Danger Purchased": Hunger, Plenty, and the Outlaw on the
Early Modern Stage 245
MATT WILLIAMSON