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Title Violence in medieval courtly literature : a casebook / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 352 pages) : illustrations, music.
text file
Series Routledge medieval casebooks
Medieval casebooks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Authority, violence, and the sacred at the medieval court / Leo D. Lefebure -- 2. Brutality and violence in medieval French romance and its consequences / Raymond Cormier -- 3. Turnus in Veldeke's Eneide : the effects of violence / William C. McDonald -- 4. Violence and pain at the court : comparing violence in German heroic and courtly epics / Scott E. Pincikowski -- 5. Violence stylized / Siegfried R. Christoph -- 6. Violence at King Arthur's court : Wolfram von Eschenbach's perspectives / Albrecht Classen -- 7. Violence in La Queste del Saint Graal and La Mort le roi Artu (Yale 229) / Nancy B. Black -- 8. Violence and communication in Shota Rustaveli's the lord of the panther-skin / Gijsbertus Koolemans Beynen -- 9. Constructive and destructive violence in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine / Stacey L. Hahn -- 10. The violent poetics of inversion, or, The inversion of violent poetics : Meo dei Tolomei, his mother, and the Italian tradition of comic poetry / Fabian Alfie -- 11. Violent magic in middle English romance / Corinne Saunders -- 12. Why is middle English romance so violent? : the literary and aesthetic purposes of violence / Jean E. Jost -- 13. Destruire et disperser : violence and the fragmented body in Christine de Pizan's prose letters / Marcella L. Munson -- 14. Mimetic crisis in the medieval mass : a sequence for the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury and its liturgical function, ca. 1230 / Julia Wingo Shinnick -- 15. Violence in the Spanish chivalric romance / Michael P. Harney.
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Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
Violence in literature.
Violence in literature.
Indexed Term Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Classen, Albrecht.
Other Form: Print version: Violence in medieval courtly literature. New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2003027719
ISBN 0203341325 (electronic book)
9780203341322 (electronic book)
0415971012 (Cloth)
9780415971010