The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature [electronic resource] : Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy /
Rider, J.editor.
Friedman, J.editor.
Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.
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Cover; Series page; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature; 2. Order, Anarchy, and Emotion in the Old French Philomena; 3. What Was She Thinking? Ysolt on the Edge; 4. Moral Posturing: Virtue in Christine de Pisan's; 5. Gesture, Emotion, and Humanity: Depictions of Mélusine in the Upton House Bearsted Fragments; 6. Is She Angry or Just Sad? Grief and Sorrow in the Songs of the Trobairitz; 7. Between Concealment and Eloquence: The Idea of the Ideal Woman in Medieval Provençal Literature
8. Spiritual and Biological Mothering in Berceo'sVida de Santa Oria9. Writing as Resistance: Self and Survival in LeonorLópez de Córdoba and Teresa de Cartagena; 10. Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Limits of Female Interiority in the Knight's Tale; 11. In Laura's Shadow: Casting Female Humanists as Petrarchan Beloveds in Quattrocento Letters; Notes on Contributors; Index
Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.
Sociology.
Europe-History.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature.
Civilization-History.
Gender Studies.
European History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Literature, general.
Cultural History.