Littérature médiévale et politique sociale : études des cultures et de leur officiel contexte...

Product Name: Littérature médiévale et politique sociale : études des cultures et de leur officiel contexte...
ISBN：9780367511289
Medieval Literature and Social Politics : Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts, Hardcover by Knight, Stephen, ISBN 0367511282, ISBN-13 9780367511289, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

"Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. Th primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucers readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and officiel Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and politicalhistory, medieval literature and modern medievalism"--.