Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54419-3 (ISBN)
Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He has published eight books, including, Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society (1310-1420); A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare; Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City; and Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War.
Introduction 1. Devotional Texts for Royal Princesses in Late Medieval Bohemia 2. Writing Jews, Writing Women: "The Prioress's Tale" and the Sacred Drama of Medieval Europe 3. The Lady as Saint: "The Second Nun's Tale," Pearl, and the Czech Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria 4. Dangerous Amazons: Sexual and Textual Rivalry in "The Knight's Tale" and The Dalimil Chronicle 5. Powerful Wives and Captive Knights: "The Wife of Bath's Tale," Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Czech Chivalric Romances 6. Women Defended, Women Defamed: The Legend of Good Women, The Plowman from Bohemia, and The Little Weaver Conclusion
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.9.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | The New Middle Ages |
Zusatzinfo | XVII, 251 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-54419-8 / 1137544198 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-54419-3 / 9781137544193 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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