Violence in Courtly Medieval Literature.
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence.
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- BookCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Authority, Violence, and the Sacred at the Medieval Court; 2 Brutality and Violence in Medieval French Romance and Its Consequences1; 3 Turnus in Veldeke's Eneide: The Effects of Violence; 4 Violence and Pain at the Court: Comparing Violence in German Heroic and Courtly Epics; 5 Violence Stylized1; 6 Violence at King Arthur's Court: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Perspectives1; 7 Violence in La Queste del Saint Graal and La Mort le roi Artu (Yale 229).
- 8 Violence and Communication in Shota Rustaveli's The Lord of the Panther-Skin9 Constructive and Destructive Violence in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine; 10 The Violent Poetics of Inversion, or the Inversion of Violent Poetics: Meo dei Tolomei, His Mother, and the Italian Tradition of Comic poetry; 11 Violent Magic in Middle English Romance; 12 Why Is Middle English Romance So Violent? The Literary and Aesthetic Purposes of Violence; 13 Destruire et disperser. Violence and the Fragme.
