Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Raoul de Cambrai
Author: The Old French Epic of Revolt
Author: William CalinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Raoul de Cambrai
Author: Sarah KayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780191877391
Category : Raoul de Cambrai
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Raoul de Cambrai
Author: Sarah KayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198158684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Raoul de Cambrai is one of the most violent and passionate Old French poems of the cycle of barons in revolt. The three relations that structure medieval society - companionship, feudalism, and the family - are here seen in crisis. Conflicts of interest, and the competition for resources,result in social disintegration, wholesale loss of life, and the collapse of authority. The poem, probably composed around the turn of the thirteenth century, results from successive reworkings that weave a many-layered commentary on its own moral and political themes. This first edition for over ahundred years draws on important manuscript material unknown to the text's previous editors. It is prefaced by a scholarly introduction and accompanied by an annotated translation into English prose.
Raoul de Cambrai
Author: A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes
Author: Willem Pieter GerritsenPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851157801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.
Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy
Author: George GarnettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521430760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
An important set of historical essays on England and Normandy from the tenth to the thirteenth century.
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe
Author: Richard W. KaeuperPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199244588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Feudal France in the French Epic
Author: George Baer FundenburgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, French
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
Author: Constance Brittain BouchardPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard examines this poorly understood component of twelfth-century thought, one responsible, in her view, for the fundamental strangeness of that culture to modern thinking.Scholars have long recognized that dialectical reasoning was the basic approach to philosophical, legal, and theological matters in the high Middle Ages. Bouchard argues that this way of thinking and categorizing—which she terms a "discourse of opposites"—permeated all aspects of medieval thought. She rejects suggestions that it was the result of imprecision, and provides evidence that people of that era sought not to reconcile opposing categories but rather to maintain them. Bouchard scrutinizes the medieval use of opposites in five broad areas: scholasticism, romance, legal disputes, conversion, and the construction of gender. Drawing on research in a series of previously unedited charters and the earliest glossa manuscripts, she demonstrates that this method of constructing reality was a constitutive element of the thought of the period.