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Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

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Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

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The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, and as a concept that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic realities. Several essays reveal how courtliness is subject to satire or is the subject of exhortation in works intended for noblemen and women, not to mention ambitious bourgeois. Others, more strictly literary in their focus, explore the witty, thoughtful and innovative responses of writers engaged in the conscious process of elevating the new vernacular culture through the articulation of its complexities and contradictions. The volume as a whole, uniting philosophical, theoretical, philological, and cultural approaches, demonstrates that medieval "courtliness" is an ideal that fascinates us to this day. It is thus a fitting tribute to the scholarship of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, in its exploration of the prrofound and wide-ranging ideas that define her contribution to the field.

ISBN

9781843843351

Publication Date

2013

Relational Format

book

Department

Modern Languages

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Disciplines

French and Francophone Language and Literature | Medieval Studies

Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
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