Courtly Pastimes

ISBN-13: 9781032307909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Opis

Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire cultural capital, to instill a sense of community, or to build diplomatic alliances.

Spis treści

Introduction / 1. The Emergence of Courtliness in Wace᾿s Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou: Pastimes of the Rulers of Brittany and the Dukes of Normandy / 2. Performing the Embrace: Intertextuality in Bernard de Clairvaux’s Sermons on the Song of Songs and Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide / 3. Tower, Bower, Garden, and Forest: Hide-and-Seek for Courtly Lovers / 4. Marie de France at Play: Equitan as Courtly Diversion or Carnivalesque Subversion? / 5. Courtly Pastimes and Nature in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan: Reading Ecology and Hybridity / 6. Sî jehent er lebe noch hiute: Courtly Play and Places of Imagination in Thirteenth-Century German Mural Cycles / 7. Fishing for Meaning: Immersive Reading and the Codex Manesse Frontispieces / 8. The Apotheosis of Provençal Fin’amors in Alfonso X’s Marian Poetry / 9. The Performance of Courtliness in the Dits of Guillaume de Machaut / 10. Blind Man’s Buff: From Children᾿s Games to Pleasure Gardens in the Late Middle Ages / 11. Amorous and Poetic Games in Christine de Pizan’s Queen’s Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431) / 12. Medieval(ist) Pastimes, or What’s a Belle dame Doing in a Place like Hatfield House? / 13. Performative Courtliness in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur / 14. Ritual, Public Pageantry, and Urban Justice: The Seizaine de mai of Bourges / 15. Ritterspiele: The Spectacle of the Courtly Tournament in Late Medieval Germany / 16. Bayard / Baiardo: The Equine Protagonist from French Chansons de geste to Italian Chivalric Poems