The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature Hardback
Edited by Piero Boitani, Anna Torti
Part of the J.A.W.Bennett Memorial Lectures series
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The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings. The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature; and the political significance of late medieval representations of `bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's poems.
Two articles are devoted to modern retellings of medieval themes: John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, seen in relation to the traditional acta martyrum, and the medieval revival in Tory Britain exemplified in Douglas Oliver's The Infant and the Pearl. Contributors: PAMELA JOSEPH BENSON, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, JON WHITMAN, JEROME MANDEL, BARBARA NOLAN, YASUNARI TAKADA, YVETTE MARCHAND, ROBERT F.
YEAGER, JOERG O. FICHTE, JOHN KERRIGAN
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:223 pages, 6 b/w, 5 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:23/09/1999
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- ISBN:9780859915458
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:223 pages, 6 b/w, 5 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:23/09/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859915458