Author: Phyllis Gaffney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317161351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the conclusions of historians? Phyllis Gaffney's innovative book reveals contrast and change in the portrayal of childhood and youth by looking at vernacular French narratives composed between 1100 and 1220. Covering over sixty poems from two major genres - epic and romance - she traces a significant evolution. While early epics contain only a few stereotypical images of the child, later verse narratives display a range of arguably timeless motifs, as well as a growing awareness of the special characteristics of youth. Whereas juvenile epic heroes contribute to the adult agenda by displaying precocious strength and wisdom, romance children are on the receiving end, requiring guidance and education. Gaffney also profiles the intriguing phenomenon of enfances poems, singing the youthful deeds of established heroes: these 'prequels' combine epic and romance features in distinctive ways. Approaching the history of childhood and youth through the lens of literary genre, this study shows how imaginative texts can both shape and reflect the historical development and cultural construction of emotional values.
Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative
Author: Phyllis Gaffney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317161351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the conclusions of historians? Phyllis Gaffney's innovative book reveals contrast and change in the portrayal of childhood and youth by looking at vernacular French narratives composed between 1100 and 1220. Covering over sixty poems from two major genres - epic and romance - she traces a significant evolution. While early epics contain only a few stereotypical images of the child, later verse narratives display a range of arguably timeless motifs, as well as a growing awareness of the special characteristics of youth. Whereas juvenile epic heroes contribute to the adult agenda by displaying precocious strength and wisdom, romance children are on the receiving end, requiring guidance and education. Gaffney also profiles the intriguing phenomenon of enfances poems, singing the youthful deeds of established heroes: these 'prequels' combine epic and romance features in distinctive ways. Approaching the history of childhood and youth through the lens of literary genre, this study shows how imaginative texts can both shape and reflect the historical development and cultural construction of emotional values.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317161351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the conclusions of historians? Phyllis Gaffney's innovative book reveals contrast and change in the portrayal of childhood and youth by looking at vernacular French narratives composed between 1100 and 1220. Covering over sixty poems from two major genres - epic and romance - she traces a significant evolution. While early epics contain only a few stereotypical images of the child, later verse narratives display a range of arguably timeless motifs, as well as a growing awareness of the special characteristics of youth. Whereas juvenile epic heroes contribute to the adult agenda by displaying precocious strength and wisdom, romance children are on the receiving end, requiring guidance and education. Gaffney also profiles the intriguing phenomenon of enfances poems, singing the youthful deeds of established heroes: these 'prequels' combine epic and romance features in distinctive ways. Approaching the history of childhood and youth through the lens of literary genre, this study shows how imaginative texts can both shape and reflect the historical development and cultural construction of emotional values.
Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738193102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738193102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Three American Plays
Author: Maxwell Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The buccaneer: A play about the famous pirate Henry Morgan.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The buccaneer: A play about the famous pirate Henry Morgan.
The Royal Dictionary. In Two Parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French Taken Out of the Dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the Great Dictionary of the French Academy, and the Remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. The English Collected Chiefly Out of the Best Dictionaries, and the Works of the Greatest Masters of the English Tongue ... For the Use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester
Author: Abel BOYER
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Dictionnaire D'archéologie Chrétienne Et de Liturgie, Publié Par Le R. P. Dom Fernand Cabrol ... Avec Le Concours D'un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs
Author: Fernand Cabrol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English ... (Grand Dictionnaire Français-Anglais Et Anglais-Français)
Author: Charles Fleming (Professor at the College Louis-le-Grand.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Dialogues with Emerging Spiritual Teachers
Author: John W. Parker
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440116318
Category : Religious leaders
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440116318
Category : Religious leaders
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose and Other Documents in the Debate
Author: Charles Frederick Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guillaume
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guillaume
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Thirteenth Century England XVIII
Author: Carl Watkins
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1805430572
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century. The theme of this volume, "Exceptional England", follows on from that of the previous one, "England in Europe". Both respond to two long-term historiographical trends among British medievalists: to place England and Britain in a wider European context, and, conversely, to emphasise the differences between developments in England and those elsewhere, either explicitly or implicitly. The essays here, in tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, are often concerned with shifts that transcend the "national" because they are driven by forces operating on a European, or at least a western European, scale. A number bring developments in England into conversation with those in other regions, turning not only to France, a traditional comparator, but also ranging further, using Poland, Italy, Spain and Hungary as points of comparison. Others problematise England's boundaries by considering the fates of people caught between worlds as English continental possessions shrank. If England emerges in these essays as rather less "exceptional", some of the contributions highlight its unusually rich sources, suggesting ways in which these riches might illuminate the history of Europe in the long thirteenth century more generally. Particular subjects addressed include the fortunes of the knightly class, the dynamics of episcopal election, and models of child kingship, along with new studies of Gerald of Wales and Simon de Montfort.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1805430572
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century. The theme of this volume, "Exceptional England", follows on from that of the previous one, "England in Europe". Both respond to two long-term historiographical trends among British medievalists: to place England and Britain in a wider European context, and, conversely, to emphasise the differences between developments in England and those elsewhere, either explicitly or implicitly. The essays here, in tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, are often concerned with shifts that transcend the "national" because they are driven by forces operating on a European, or at least a western European, scale. A number bring developments in England into conversation with those in other regions, turning not only to France, a traditional comparator, but also ranging further, using Poland, Italy, Spain and Hungary as points of comparison. Others problematise England's boundaries by considering the fates of people caught between worlds as English continental possessions shrank. If England emerges in these essays as rather less "exceptional", some of the contributions highlight its unusually rich sources, suggesting ways in which these riches might illuminate the history of Europe in the long thirteenth century more generally. Particular subjects addressed include the fortunes of the knightly class, the dynamics of episcopal election, and models of child kingship, along with new studies of Gerald of Wales and Simon de Montfort.