Описание: Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose romance by Jean d'Arras at the end of the 14th century, swiftly followed by one in verse by Couldrette. This book provides a collection of material from various sources to give an all round picture of the remarkable faery, her town, her church, her immediate family, and the great Lusignan dynasty she founded. An established authority on Melusine, Gareth Knight collects together all the best source material, which he translates from the French, and presents his own researches into the Lusignan family of the 12th century, whose dynasty included kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem, examining the possibility of a familiar spirit guiding the family in its destiny.
Автор: Blockmans Название: Introduction to Medieval Europe 300?1550 ISBN: 0415675871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415675871 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4439.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history. Covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianization, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague, and the intellectual and cultural life of the Middle Ages, the book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic World.
Описание: Using a range of evidence, Chandler addresses the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March as part of the Carolingian `experiment`. Tracing the region`s relationship with the monarchy over two centuries, he revises traditional views of ethnic motivations for action and prior interpretations of the constitutional birth of Catalonia.
Автор: Wadiak Walter Название: Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance ISBN: 0268101183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268101183 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities. Essential to this literary evolution is the concept and practice of “noble” gift-giving, which binds together knights and commoners in ways that both echo and displace the notorious violence of many of these stories. Wadiak begins with the assumption that “romance” names a particular kind of chivalric fantasy to which violence is central, just as violence was instrumental to the formation and identity of the medieval warrior aristocracy. A traditional view is that the violence of romance stories is an expression of aristocratic privilege wielded by a military caste in its relations with one another as well as with those lower on the social scale. In this sense, violence is the aristocratic gift that underwrites and reaffirms the feudal power of a privileged group, with the noble gift performing the symbolic violence on which romance depends in order to present itself as both a coded threat and an expression of chivalric values. Well-known examples of romance in Middle English, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, are considered alongside more “popular” examples of the genre to demonstrate a surprising continuity of function across a range of social contexts. Wadiak charts a trajectory from violence aimed directly at securing feudal domination to the subtler and more diffuse modes of coercion that later English romances explore. Ultimately, this is a book about the ways in which romance lives on as an idea, even as the genre itself begins to lose ground at the close of the Middle Ages.
Описание: Les Enchantemenz de Bretaigne is a portion of a medieval Arthurian prose romance extracted from a longer work entitled La Suite du Merlin. Editor Patrick Coogan Smith includes background and summaries that provide context for the portion of text provided.
Название: Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory ISBN: 1843844176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843844174 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Автор: Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox Название: Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France ISBN: 0820357103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357102 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, an enigmatic fairy-figure subject to periodic monstrous transformations, through its expansion in Europe and the Near East, to its ultimate evanescence. Melusine offers a singular blend of history and fiction as it upholds the proprietary claims to Lusignan of the work's illustrious patron, Jean, Duc de Berry. The great deeds of Melusine, her forebears, and her progeny unfold in a narrative that blends elements of myth, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, Crusade narrative, romance, and theological doctrine. Advancing a wealth of new material and fresh insight, the essays in this volume address the complex interplay of the conventions of medieval fictional, historical, and genealogical writing from a wide variety of critical perspectives. Together, they offer a new, more balanced and comprehensive understanding of one of the most significant literary works of late medieval European culture.
Автор: Waquelin Jean Название: Medieval Romance of Alexander ISBN: 1843845202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843845201 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nigel Bryant`s is the first translation of an example of the many medieval romances about Alexander, as popular in their day as those about Arthur.
Автор: Green Название: Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance ISBN: 1107646294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107646292 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: D. H. Green challenges the prevailing view of the Middle Ages as a static period in which attitudes to women were uniformly negative. Focusing on the great German romances Erec, Tristan and Parzival he explores strategies used by vernacular writers to debate and challenge the undoubted antifeminism of the day.
Описание: A new study of the continuations to Chretien`s Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature.
Автор: Mitchell Название: Scott, Chaucer, And Medieval Romance ISBN: 0813153697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813153698 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognised, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth. Jerome Mitchell`s book fills this significant gap through a wide-ranging study of Scott`s indebtedness to Chaucer and to medieval romance.
Автор: Rider Название: The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature ISBN: 0230105149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230105140 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.
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