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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Emergence of Courtliness in Wace's Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou: Pastimes of the Rulers of Brittany and the Dukes of Normandy -- 2. Performing the Embrace: Intertextuality in Bernard de Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide -- 3. Tower, Bower, Garden, and Forest: Hide-and-Seek for Courtly Lovers -- 4. Marie de France at Play: Equitan as Courtly Diversion or Carnivalesque Subversion? |
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5. Courtly Pastimes and Nature in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan: Reading Ecology and Hybridity -- 6. Sî jehent er lebe noch hiute: Courtly Play and Places of the Imagination in Thirteenth-Century German Mural Cycles -- 7. Fishing for Meaning: Immersive Reading and the Codex Manesse Frontispieces -- 8. The Apotheosis of Provençal Fin'amors in Alfonso X's Marian Poetry -- 9. The Performance of Courtliness in the Dits of Guillaume de Machaut -- 10. Blind Man's Buff: From Children's Games to Pleasure Gardens in the Late Middle Ages |
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11. Amorous and Poetic Games in Christine de Pizan's Queen's Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431) -- 12. Medieval(ist) Pastimes, or What's a Belle dame Doing in a Place Like Hatfield House? -- 13. Performative Courtliness in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur -- 14. Ritual, Public Pageantry, and Urban Justice: The Seizaine de mai of Bourges -- 15. Ritterspiele: The Spectacle of the Courtly Tournament in Late Medieval Germany -- 16. Bayard/Baiardo: The Equine Protagonist from French Chansons de geste to Italian Chivalric Poems -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Nobility -- Europe -- Social life and customs
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Europe -- Social life and customs
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Amusements -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Amusements
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Social life and customs
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Nobility -- Social life and customs
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Human, Julie
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| ISBN |
9781000798852 |
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1000798852 |
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