| Description |
xxi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Feudal relations and reason in Cleanness / Cindy L. Vitto -- Imagining feudalism in Piers Plowman : attempts to restore an order / Daniel F. Pigg -- Potency and power : Chaucer's aristocrats and their linguistic superiority / Jean E. Jost -- Chivalry and feudal obligation in Barbour's Bruce / Liam O. Purdon and Julian N. Wasserman -- As good as her word : women's language in The knight of the Tour d'Landry / Cynthia Ho -- Men's theory and women's reality : rape prosecutions in the English Royal Courts of Justice, 1194-1222 / Patricia Orr -- Par amur et par feid : keeping faith and the varieties of feudalism in La chanson de Roland / William T. Cotton -- When feudal ideas failed : conflicts between lords and vassals in the Low Countries, 1127-1296 / Karen S. Nicholas -- Feudal chivalry in popular medieval battle poems / John W. Schwetman. |
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(cont) The Roman de Jaufre and the illusions of romance / Ross G. Arthur -- Chaucer subjectivizes the oath : depicting the fall from feudalism into individualism in the Canterbury tales / Lois Roney -- John Rastell and the Norman Conquest : Tudor theories about the feudal age / Amos Lee Laine. |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Order (Philosophy) in literature.
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Order (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Feudalism in literature.
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Feudalism in literature. |
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Literature and society.
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Literature and society. |
| Added Author |
Purdon, Liam O.
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Vitto, Cindy L.
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| ISBN |
0813012821 paperback |
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0813012813 cloth |
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