Albrecht Classen

Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature

A Casebook

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Produktbeschreibung

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in medieval courtly literature was underpinned by

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 148mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415971010
• ISBN-10: 0415971012
• Artikelnr.: 21478636

Autorenporträt

Albrecht Classen is Professor of German at the University of Arizona. He is editor of The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages and Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages, both published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Violence in the Shadows of the Court
1. Authority
Violence
and the Sacred at the Medieval Court
2. Brutality and Violence in Medieval French Romance and Its Consequences
3. Turnus in Veldeke's Eneide: The Effects of Violence
4. Violence and Pain at the Court: Comparing Violence in German Heroic and Courtly Epics
5. Violence Stylized
6. Violence at King Arthur's Court: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Perspectives
7. Violence in La Queste del Saint Graal and La Mort le roi Artu (Yale 229)
8. Violence and Communication in Shota Rustaveli's The Lord of the Panther-Skin
9. Constructive and Destructive Violence in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine
10. The Violent Poetics of Inversion
or the Inversion of Violent Poetics: Meo dei Tolomei
His Mother
and the Italian Tradition of Comic Poetry
11. Violent Magic in Middle English Romance
12. Why Is Middle English Romance So Violent? The Literary and Aesthetic Purposes of Violence
13. Destruire et disperser: Violence and the Fragmented Body in Christine de Pizan's Prose Letters
14. Mimetic Crisis in the Medieval Mass: A Sequence for the Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury and Its Liturgical Function
ca. 1230
15. Violence in the Spanish Chivalric Romance
Contributors
Index