Coats of arms, clothing and armour are easier to manipulate than passports or ID cards. Medieval narratives are full of scenes in which there is a problem in clearly identifying who and what is who. From these, it is possible to reconstruct models of recognising the other, which alienate us today, but reveal much about ideas of perception and identity at the time. The book shows how courtly literature uses literary games with these models both to confirm and continually to question central premisses of feudal culture.
Coats of arms, clothing and armour are easier to manipulate than passports or ID cards. Medieval narratives are full of scenes in which there is a ...
This book is a systematic compendium of research on the otherness of medieval narrative. It particularly examines how forms of narrative are linked to narrative meaning. Covered themes include genre, patterns of narration, connections to contemporary world knowledge, spatial and temporal models, relationships to plot, and narrative drafts. The text has been revised once again for the student edition.
This book is a systematic compendium of research on the otherness of medieval narrative. It particularly examines how forms of narrative are linked...
