Malorys Anatomy Of Chivalry

Author : Paul Rovang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611477794
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry written by Paul Rovang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic study in decades of Malory’s development of his characters in the Morte Darthur. Focusing on sixteen key figures in the most important medieval English treatment of the Arthurian saga, it examines Malory’s thematic characterization of individual rulers, knights, and ladies in keeping with the twin trajectories of his history of the Round Table and fifteenth-century English history. Looking at how Malory develops his characters as exemplars of kingship, knighthood, and womanhood, the book traces the medieval author’s exploration of the values constituting chivalry as embodied in individual characters, a process that enabled him to formulate a vision of those values for his own troubled period of the Wars of the Roses. This book further explores the contribution Malory’s art of characterization makes to the literary and aesthetic power of the Morte Darthur. Each chapter’s focus on individual characters makes the book not only an integrated thematic overview, but also a useful reference for focused study of particular Arthurian figures. As such, the book is designed to meet the interests and needs of both professional scholars and students of Arthurian and medieval literature.

Author : Megan G. Leitch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846357
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthurian Literature XXXVII written by Megan G. Leitch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and fresh assessments of Malory's Morte Darthur.

Author : Tory Pearman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429818149
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur written by Tory Pearman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.

Author : Olive Bacon Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Code of Chivalry as Reflected in Malory's Morte Darthur written by Olive Bacon Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Megan G. Leitch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845237
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to Malory written by Megan G. Leitch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

Author : Gloria Allaire
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000798887
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courtly Pastimes written by Gloria Allaire and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth, a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace, "downtime" as we might call it today? In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines investigate courtly modes of entertainment ranging from the vigorous to the intellectual: hunting, jousting, horse racing; physical and verbal games; reading, writing, and book ownership. Favorite pastimes spanned differences of gender and age, and crossed geographical and cultural boundaries. Literary and historical examples come from England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire cultural capital, to instill a sense of community, or to build diplomatic alliances. Performativity − so crucial in social rituals − could become transgressive if taken to extremes. Certain chapters explore the spaces of courtliness: literal or imaginary; man-made, natural, or a hybrid of both. Other chapters concern materiality and visual elements associated with courtly pastimes: from humble children’s toys and playthings to elite tournament attire, castle murals, and manuscript illuminations.

Author : Andrew Lynch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859915115
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malory's Book of Arms written by Andrew Lynch and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest, armed combat. The description of knightly combat, with its complex thematic affinities, is seen as Malory's chief expressive medium. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations - to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are treated as 'needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period. The critical discussion thus rests more on these elements of discourse rather than on the broader concepts such as 'chivalry' or 'love' normally applied to Malory.

Author : Siobhán M. Wyatt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319342045
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur written by Siobhán M. Wyatt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey of the alterations Malory made to female characters in his source texts. Through detailed comparisons with both Old French and Middle English material, Siobhán M. Wyatt discusses how Malory radically altered his French and English source texts to create a gendered pattern in the reliability of speech, depicting female discourse as valuable and truthful. Malory’s authorial crafting indicates his preference for a certain “type” of female character: self-governing, opinionated, and strong. Simultaneously, the portrayal of this very readable “type” yields characterization. While late medieval court records indicate an increasingly negative attitude towards female speech and a tendency to punish vociferous women as “scolds,” Malory makes the words of chiding damsels constructive. While his contemporary writers suppress the powers of magical women, Malory empowers his enchantress characters; while the authors of his French source texts accentuate Guinevere’s flaws, Malory portrays her with sympathy.

Author : Nathanael Busch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311046747X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (2015) written by Nathanael Busch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the BIAS is, year by year, to draw attention to all scholarly books and articles directly concerned with the matière de Bretagne. The bibliography aims to include all books, reviews and articles published in the year preceding its appearance, an exception being made for earlier studies which have been omitted inadvertently. The present volume contains over 700 entries on relevant publications that were published in 2014.

Author : William Henry Schofield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.FY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chivalry in English Literature written by William Henry Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: