Titel: | Courtly pastimes |
Mitwirkende: | Allaire, Gloria [HerausgeberIn] [VerfasserIn einer Einleitung] ![i](/https/katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/opacicon/information2.png) |
| Human, Julie [HerausgeberIn] ![i](/https/katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/opacicon/information2.png) |
Verf.angabe: | edited by Gloria Allaire and Julie Human |
Verlagsort: | London ; New York |
Verlag: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Jahr: | 2023 |
Umfang: | xii, 243 Seiten |
Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Routledge medieval casebooks |
Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index ; "This volume presents a selection of papers read at the Fifteenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society held in 2016 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington." (Introduction) ; Genauer Zeitraum der Konferenz aus dem Internet ermittelt |
ISBN: | 978-1-032-30790-9 |
| 978-1-032-30791-6 |
Abstract: | Introduction / Gloria Allaire, University of Kentucky -- 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 / Laurence Mathey-Maille, Université du Havre -- Performing the embrace: intertextuality in Bernard de Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide / Jeanne A. Nightingale, Miami University of Ohio -- Tower, bower, garden, and forest: hide-and-seek for Courtly lovers / Janina P. Traxler, Manchester University, Indiana -- Marie de France at play: Equitan as Courtly diversion or carnivalesque subversion? / Monica L. Wright, University of Louisiana at Lafayette -- Courtly pastimes and nature in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan: reading ecology and hybridity / Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University -- Sî jehent er lebe noch hiute: Courtly play and places of imagination in thirteenth-century German mural cycles / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State University -- Fishing for meaning: immersive reading and the Codex Manesse Frontispieces / D. Lyle Dechant. DePauw University -- The Apotheosis of Provençal Fin'amors in Alfonso X's Marian Poetry / Joseph T. Snow, Michigan State University -- The performance of courtliness in the Dits of Guillaume de Machaut / Sara Sturm-Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- Blind man's buff: from children's games to pleasure gardens in the late Middle Ages / Kristen M. Figg, Kent State University -- Amorous and poetic games in Christine de Pizan's Queen's Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431) / Lori J. Walters, The Florida State University -- Medieval(ist) pastimes, or What's a Belle dame Doing in a Place like Hatfield House? / Joan E. McRae, Middle Tennessee State University -- Performative Courtliness in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Shawn Phillip Cooper, Oakland Community College -- Ritual, public pageantry, and urban justice: the Seizaine de mai of Bourges / Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- Ritterspiele: the Spectacle of the Courtly Tournament in Late Medieval Germany / Natalie Anderson, Independent Scholar -- Bayard / Baiardo: the equine protagonist from French Chansons de geste to Italian Chivalric Poems / Maurizio Mazzoni, Independent Scholar -- List of contributors -- Index. |
| "The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth, a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace, "downtime" as we might call it today? In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines investigate courtly modes of entertainment ranging from the vigorous to the intellectual: hunting, jousting, horse racing; physical and verbal games; reading, writing, and book ownership. Favorite pastimes spanned differences of gender and age, and crossed geographical and cultural boundaries. Literary and historical examples come from England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy"-- |
DOI: | doi:10.4324/9781003306672 |
URL: | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003306672 |
Schlagwörter: | (s)Adel / (s)Aristokratie / (s)Gentleman / (s)Vergnügen / (s)Mittelalter ![i](/https/katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/opacicon/information2.png) |
Dokumenttyp: | Konferenzschrift: (24.07.2016-29.07.2016 : Lexington, Ky.) |
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Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Courtly pastimes. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,, 2023. - 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
K10plus-PPN: | 1810000157 |