Chaucer and Becket’s Mother : : "The Man of Law’s Tale," Conversion, and Race in the Middle Ages / / Meriem Pagès.
Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket’s martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II’s knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket’s father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023] ©2024 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medieval Media Cultures
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION
- Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION
- Chapter 2 THOMAS BECKET’S MOTHER
- Chapter 3 THE BECKET LEGEND, THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE, AND CONVERSION
- Chapter 4 THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE IN CONTEXT
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX