Rites of passage : cultures of transition in the fourteenth century / edited by Nicola F. McDonald and W.M. Ormrod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonald, Nicola.

Ormrod, W. M., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval--14th century.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

vii, 176 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[York, England] : York Medieval Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : in association with Boydell Press, 2004.

Contents:

Introduction : rite of passage / Miri Rubin

Re-writing a rite of passage : the peculiar funeral of Edward II / Joel Burden

Coming to kingship : boy kings and the passage to power in fourteenth-century England / W.M. Ormrod

Boy/man into clerk/priest : the making of the late medieval clergy / P.H. Cullum

Manners maketh man : living, dining and becoming a man in the later Middle Ages / Sharon Wells

Rites of passage in French and English romances / Helen Phillips

Becoming a woman in Chaucer : 'on ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' / Jane Gilbert

John Gower's fear of flying : transitional masculinities in the Confessio amantis

Isabel davis

'Le moment de conclure' : initiation as retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux

Sarah kay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1903153158

OCLC:

54529980