The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature

Name: The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature
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By Piero Boitani

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The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature; and the political significance of late medieval representations of `bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's poems. Two articles are devoted to modern retellings of medieval themes: John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments', seen in relation to the traditional 'acta martyrum', and the medieval revival in Tory Britain exemplified in Douglas Oliver's 'The Infant and the Pearl'.
Contributors: PAMELA JOSEPH BENSON, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, JON WHITMAN, JEROME MANDEL, BARBARA NOLAN, YASUNARI TAKADA, YVETTE MARCHAND, ROBERT F. YEAGER, JOERG O. FICHTE, JOHN KERRIGAN

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 224
Release Date:: 1999-09-01
Publication Date:: 1999-09-23
Publisher:: D.S.Brewer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 085991545X
ISBN13:: 9780859915458
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 505 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 1.7 cm

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