Violence In Medieval Courtly Literature
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Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135876347 |
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.
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415971010 |
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.
Author | : Richard W. Kaeuper |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199244588 |
Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displaysof prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Theknights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church" and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of theknighthood. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.
Author | : Kathryn Gravdal |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812200330 |
In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: sometimes through humor and aestheticization, sometimes through the use of social and political themes, but especially through the romanticism of rape scenes.
Author | : Eve Salisbury |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0813031273 |
''Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts and, with this recognition, to reconsider what the works teach us not only about the treatments and troping of victims in the medieval world but also how these patterns are a part of the social history of domestic violence.
Author | : Sarah Kay |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804730792 |
Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of courtly love? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Middle Ages, and why does it matter? This book addresses these questions by way of contradiction, which is central both to medieval logic and to most modern protocols of reading.
Author | : R. Howard Bloch |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2022-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520371097 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Author | : Anna Roberts |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813063701 |
This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
Author | : C. Rose |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137104481 |
In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture. The volume has two purposes: first, to explore the resistance these pervasive representations generate and have generated for readers - especially for the female reader- and second, to explore what these representations tell us about social formations governing the relationships between men and women. More particularly, Rose and Robertson are interested in how representations of rape manifest a given culture's understanding of the female subject in society.
Author | : Edelgard E. DuBruck |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1571130810 |
Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence.