Discourses on love, marriage, and transgression in medieval and early modern literature / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Classen, Albrecht.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 278.

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Love in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

374 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.

Language Note:

1 text in French.

Contents:

The knight, the woman, and the historian: Georges Duby and courtly love / Virginie Greene

Transgressive troubadours and lawless lovers?: Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d'amor as a courtly apologia / Michelle Bolduc

Christian love or pagan transgression?: marriage and conversion in Floire et Blancheflor / Lynn Shutters

"Femmes et tere": Marie de France and the discourses of "Lanval" / Karen K. Jambeck

Colonial possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman imaginary in the Lais of Marie de France / Sharon Kinoshita

Erec's uxoriousness / James A. Rushing

"L'auteur est mort, vive l'auteur": love in poetry and fiction / Ulrich Müller

Accusations of gay and straight sexual transgression in the Roman de la violette / Suzanne Kocher

Littérature courtoise ou le libertinage avant la lettre: d'après les chansons de Guillaume de Poitiers et Joufroi, roman du XIIIe siècle / Anna Kukułka-Wojtasik

Love, marriage, and transgression in Joufroi de Poitiers: a case of literary anarchism? / Penny Simons

Transgressive fathers in Sir Eglamour of Artois and Torrent of Portyngale / Joanne Charbonneau

Chaucer's vows and how they break: transgression in the Manciple's tale / Jean E. Jost

Love, marriage, and sexual transgressions in Heinrich Kaufringer's verse narratives (ca. 1400) / Albrecht Classen

"Buon cavallo e mal cavallo vuole sprone, e buona femina e mala femina vuol Bastone": medieval cultural fictions of wife-battering / Louise O. Vasvári

Constructing new women in early modern English literature / Marilyn Sandidge

True stories and alternative discourses: the game of love in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Elizabeth C. Zegura.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

086698321X

OCLC:

56752802