Love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature : martyrs to love / by Simon Gaunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaunt, Simon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

French literature.

Provençal literature--History and criticism.

Provençal literature.

Courtly love in literature.

Death in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the countess of Tripoli, having loved her from afar without ever having seen her. Or in Marie de France's Chevrefoil, Tristan and Iseult's fatal love is hauntingly symbolized by the fatally entwined honeysuckle and hazel. And who could forget the ethereal spectacle of the Damoisele of Escalot's body carried to Camelot on asupernatural funerary boat with a letter on her breast explaining how her unrequited love for Lancelot killed her? Medieval

Contents:

Contents; Illustration; A Note on Quotations and Translations; Introduction; 1. Love's Martyrdom and the Ethical Subject; 2. To Die For: The Sovereign Power of the Lady in Troubadour Lyric; 3. The Deadly Secrets of the Heart: The Chastelaine de Vergy and the Castelain de Couci; 4. Between Two (or More) Deaths: Tristan, Lancelot, Cligès; 5. Talking the Talk/Walking the Walk: Gendering Death; 6. The Queer Look of Love: Narcissus, Bel Vezer, Galehaut; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-153402-1

1-280-90566-2

9786610905669

1-4356-2276-6

OCLC:

191221602