Place, space, and landscape in medieval narrative / edited by Laura L. Howes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howes, Laura L.

Series:

Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 43.

Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

xxix, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007]

Contents:

Landscape and late medieval literature: a critical geography / John M. Ganim

Making space for history: Galbert of Bruges and the murder of Charles the Good / Lisa H. Cooper

A camp wedding: the cultural context of Chaucer's Brooch of Thebes / William R. Askins

Adventurous custance: St. Thomas of Acre and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale / Lawrence Warner

"The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood": how sin and redemption affect heavenly space in an Old English transfiguration homily / Thomas J. Heffernan

Controlling space and secrets in the Lais of Marie de France / Michael Calabrese

Chaucerian gardens and the spirit of play / Kenneth Bleeth

Landscapes of discrimination in converso literature / Gregory B. Kaplan

"Truthe is therinne": the spaces of truth and community in Piers Plowman B / Kari Kalve

Eastward of the garden: the biblical landscape of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Catherine S. Cox

The place of chivalry in the new Trojan court: Gawain, Troilus, and Richard II / Sylvia Federico

Before Chaucer's Shipman's Tale: the language of place, the place of language in Decameron 8.1 and 8.2 / Robert W. Hanning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1572335866

9781572335868

OCLC:

74941037