Stephen Knight

Medieval Literature and Social Politics (eBook, PDF)

Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000340129
• Artikelnr.: 60995978

Autorenporträt

Stephen Knight is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has previously worked at the University of Sydney, De Montfort University and Cardiff University. He has published over twenty books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Early classic texts and their contexts 1 `From
Jerusalem to Camelot: King Arthur and the Crusades' 2. `Satire in Piers
Plowman' 3. `Chaucer and the sociology of literature' 4. `Ideology in "The
Franklin's Tale"' 5. `The social function of the Middle English romances'
Part 2: Mythic and popular materials and their contexts 6. `Arthurian
authorities: ideology in the legend of King Arthur' 7. `Why was "Lady
Isabel and the Elf-Knight" the most popular ballad in Europe?' 8. `Rabbie
Hood: the development of the English outlaw myth in Scotland' 9. `Robin
Hood and the royal restoration' 10. `Robin Hood and the Crusades: when and
why did the longbowman of the people mount up like a lord' 11. `The Arctic
Arthur: patriotic medievalism' Part 3: Modern approaches to medieval
materials 12. `Resemblance and menace: a post-colonial reading of Peredur'
13. `"Love's altar is the forest glade": Chaucer in the light of Dafydd ap
Gwilym' 14. `Chaucer's fabliaux and late medieval structure of feeling' 15.
`Medievalist comic relief: trashing the medieval in the eighteenth century'
16. `The social integration of emotion in early Arthurian romance' 17
`"Artful Thunder": Merlin, wisdom and the environment'