Essays in Medieval Culture / / Durant Waite Robertson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Robertson, Durant Waite,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 569
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)

Bringing together a collection of this distinguished medievalist's most important and controversial work, heretofore scattered and frequently inaccessible, this book constitutes both an appropriate introduction for students new to medieval studies and a convenient compendium for scholars establ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Author's Introduction
• I
• Historical Criticism
• The Doctrine of Charity in Medieval Literary Gardens: A Topical Approach Through Symbolism and Allegory
• Some Medieval Literary Terminology, with Special Reference to Chrétien de Troyes
• Some Observations on Method in Literary Studies
• The Allegorist and the Aesthetician
• II
• Certain Theological Conventions in Mannyng's Treatment of the Commandments
• Frequency of Preaching in Thirteenth Century England
• III
• Two Poems from the Carmina Burana
• Five Poems by Marcabru
• The Partitura Amorosa of Jean de Savoie
• Chrétien's Cligés and the Ovidian Spirit
• The Idea of Fame in Chretien's Cligés
• Love Conventions in Marie's Equitan
• IV
• The Pearl as Symbol
• The "Heresy" of The Pearl
• The Question of Typology and the Wakefield Mactacio Abel
• V
• The Historical Setting of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
• The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts
• Chaucer's Franklin and his Tale
• Some Disputed Chaucerian Terminology
• VI
• In Foraminibus Petrae: A Note on Leonardo's "Virgin of the Rocks"
• Sidney's Metaphor of the Ulcer
• A Medievalist Looks at Hamlet
• Pope and Boethius
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index