The Loving Subject : Desire, Eloquence, and Power in Romanesque France / Gerald A. Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Gerald A., Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bayeux tapestry--Themes, motives.

Bayeux tapestry.

Personality.

Secularism--France.

Secularism.

Love in literature.

Art, Romanesque--France.

Art, Romanesque.

Love in literature--France.

France--Civilization--1000-1328.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p. ) ill. (some col.) ;

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gerald Bond explores the rise of a new secular identity that took place in French elite culture at the turn of the twelfth century. While the period is widely recognized as pivotal, and much revisionary work has been done on it, Bond notes that in order to see the changes in the conception of the private secular self the focus must be shifted away from epics and saints' lives, the traditional targets of literary inquiry, to lyric, letters, and marginal texts and images. Such texts and images can be found at regional courts reasonably independent of the weak and limited monarchy and at schools far removed from the traditional Christian curriculum, where a new and distinctly secular group contested inherited values of class, gender, and person and created distinct patterns and codes of dress, behavior, talk, and pleasure. Translating and using sources that for the most part have never been explored, Bond examines the Bayeux Tapestry and such figures as Marbod of Rennes, Baudri of Bourgueil, William of Poitiers, and Adela of Blois to frame a complex view of the contested reconception of the secular self and its value.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Arresting Subjects: AElfgyva and the Coloring of History

2. The Play of Desire: Baudri of Bourgueil and the Formation of the Ovidian Subculture

3. Natural Poetics: Marbod at Angers and the Promotion of Eloquence

4. Craft and Power: William of Poitiers, Courtesy, and the Impersonation of Wit

5. The Makeup of the Lady: Adela of Blois and the Subject of Praise

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.

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ISBN:

9781512800821

1512800821

9780585196749

0585196745

OCLC:

979751250