In this Book
- Essays in Medieval Culture
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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 established in the field.
Originally published in 1980.
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Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Author's Introduction
- pp. xi-xx
- I
- Historical Criticism
- pp. 3-20
- The Allegorist and the Aesthetician
- pp. 85-102
- II
- Ill
- Two Poems from the Carmina Burana
- pp. 131-150
- Five Poems by Marcabru
- pp. 151-165
- The Partitura Amorosa of Jean de Savoie
- pp. 166-172
- Chretien's Cliges and the Ovidian Spirit
- pp. 173-182
- The Idea of Fame in Chretien's Cliges
- pp. 183-201
- Love Conventions in Marie's Equitan
- pp. 202-206
- IV
- The Pearl as Symbol
- pp. 209-214
- The "Heresy" of The Pearl
- pp. 215-217
- V
- Chaucer's Franklin and his Tale
- pp. 273-290
- Some Disputed Chaucerian Terminology
- pp. 291-302
- VI
- Sidney's Metaphor of the Ulcer
- pp. 308-311
- A Medievalist Looks at Hamlet
- pp. 312-331
- Pope and Boethius
- pp. 332-340
- Bibliography
- pp. 383-384