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Allegorical bodies : power and gender in late medieval France / Daisy Delogu.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delogu, Daisy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Université de Paris--History.
- Université de Paris.
- French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Women in literature.
- Symbolism in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- French literature--Political aspects.
- Women--France--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Allegory.
- France--Symbolic representation.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--1328-1589.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380-1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu's book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.
- Contents:
- Allegory is a woman
- From douce France to the dame renommee: figuring the French body politic
- Jean Gerson and teh University of Paris
- Envisioning the body politic before and after teh Treaty of Troyes
- Coda: What to say about Joan of Arc?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9006-2
- 1-4426-2281-4
- OCLC:
- 906189985
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