Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects eleven essays together with a contextualizing introduction examining the relationship between outlaws, food, and feasting in the literature and culture of the premodern British Isles and France, c. 10th-17th centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000372106
• Artikelnr.: 61169414

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