Courtly pastimes / edited by Gloria Allaire and Julie Human.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allaire, Gloria, 1954- editor, writer of introduction.

Human, Julie, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Medieval casebooks

Routledge medieval casebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--Europe--Social life and customs.

Nobility.

Aristocracy (Social class)--Europe--Social life and customs.

Aristocracy (Social class).

Amusements--Europe--History--To 1500.

Amusements.

Civilization, Medieval.

Nobility--Europe--History--To 1500.

Aristocracy (Social class)--Europe--History--To 1500.

Europe--Social life and customs--To 1500.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Gloria Allaire is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research interest has been Italian chivalric literature of the late Middle Ages. She has presented over 50 conference papers and published 45 articles or book chapters. Her seven books include Andrea da Barberino and the Language of Chivalry (University Press of Florida, 1997); two Italian prose Tristan editions with facing-page English translations (D. S. Brewer, 2002 and 2015); The Arthur of the Italians [. . .], co-edited with F. Regina Psaki (University of Wales Press, 2014); and an essay collection, The Italian Novella (Routledge, 2003). Julie Human is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she directs the French language program and teaches courses ranging from accelerated beginning French to graduate seminars on medieval literature. Her research focuses on the intersections of pedagogy and gender in medieval French literature, particularly Arthurian romance. She has recently published on teaching the lais of Marie de France through performance and is currently working on a project on specularity in medieval French romance.

Contents:

Introduction / Gloria Allaire, University of Kentucky

The emergence of courtliness in Wace's Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou: pastimes of the rulers of Brittany and the Dukes of Normandy / Laurence Mathey-Maille, Université du Havre

Performing the embrace: intertextuality in Bernard de Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide / Jeanne A. Nightingale, Miami University of Ohio

Tower, bower, garden, and forest: hide-and-seek for Courtly lovers / Janina P. Traxler, Manchester University, Indiana

Marie de France at play: Equitan as Courtly diversion or carnivalesque subversion? / Monica L. Wright, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Courtly pastimes and nature in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan: reading ecology and hybridity / Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University

Sî jehent er lebe noch hiute: Courtly play and places of imagination in thirteenth-century German mural cycles / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State University

Fishing for meaning: immersive reading and the Codex Manesse Frontispieces / D. Lyle Dechant. DePauw University

The Apotheosis of Provençal Fin'amors in Alfonso X's Marian Poetry / Joseph T. Snow, Michigan State University

The performance of courtliness in the Dits of Guillaume de Machaut / Sara Sturm-Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Blind man's buff: from children's games to pleasure gardens in the late Middle Ages / Kristen M. Figg, Kent State University

Amorous and poetic games in Christine de Pizan's Queen's Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431) / Lori J. Walters, The Florida State University

Medieval(ist) pastimes, or What's a Belle dame Doing in a Place like Hatfield House? / Joan E. McRae, Middle Tennessee State University

Performative Courtliness in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Shawn Phillip Cooper, Oakland Community College

Ritual, public pageantry, and urban justice: the Seizaine de mai of Bourges / Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ritterspiele: the Spectacle of the Courtly Tournament in Late Medieval Germany / Natalie Anderson, Independent Scholar

Bayard / Baiardo: the equine protagonist from French Chansons de geste to Italian Chivalric Poems / Maurizio Mazzoni, Independent Scholar

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Courtly pastimes

ISBN:

9781003306672

1003306675

9781000798852

1000798852

9781000798883

1000798887

Publisher Number:

40031444023

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