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Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature Albrecht Classen

Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature By Albrecht Classen

Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature by Albrecht Classen


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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 in Medieval Courtly Literature Summary

Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature: A Casebook by Albrecht Classen

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant problem, and marriage was often characterized by brutality. Albrecht Classen brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars in this volume to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising unions of love and violence in courtly medieval literature.

About Albrecht Classen

Albrecht Classen is Professor of German at the University of Arizona. He is editor of The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages and Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages, both published by Routledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Violence in the Shadows of the Court, 1. Authority, Violence, and the Sacred at the Medieval Court, 2. Brutality and Violence in Medieval French Romance and Its Consequences, 3. Turnus in Veldekes Eneide: The Effects of Violence, 4. Violence and Pain at the Court: Comparing Violence in German Heroic and Courtly Epics, 5. Violence Stylized, 6. Violence at King Arthurs Court: Wolfram von Eschenbachs Perspectives, 7. Violence in La Queste del Saint Graal and La Mort le roi Artu (Yale 229), 8. Violence and Communication in Shota Rustavelis The Lord of the Panther-Skin, 9. Constructive and Destructive Violence in Jean dArras Roman de Melusine, 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 Fragmented Body in Christine de Pizans Prose Letters, 14. Mimetic Crisis in the Medieval Mass: A Sequence for the Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury and Its Liturgical Function, ca. 1230, 15. Violence in the Spanish Chivalric Romance, Contributors, Index

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NPB9780415971010
9780415971010
0415971012
Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature: A Casebook by Albrecht Classen
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2004-07-19
358
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