French Romance of the Later Middle Ages
Gender, Morality, and Desire
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 November 2008
- ISBN 9780199554140
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 241x162x205 mm
- Weight 571 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece 0
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Short description:
The first in-depth study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 15 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. It examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as daughters, maidens, wives, and mothers.
MoreLong description:
Whilst French romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have long enjoyed a privileged place in the literary history of France, romances from the later middle ages have been largely neglected by modern scholars, despite their central role in the chivalric culture of the day. In particular, although this genre has been seen as providing a forum within which ideas about masculine and feminine roles were debated and prescribed, little work has been done on the gender ideology of texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This study seeks to fill this gap in the scholarship by analysing how the views of gender found in earlier romances were reassessed and reshaped in the texts produced in the moralising intellectual environment of the later medieval period. In order to explore these topics, this book discusses fifteen historico-realist prose romances written in the century from 1390, many of which were commissioned at the court of Burgundy. It addresses key issues in recent studies of gender in medieval culture including the construction of chivalric masculinity, the representation of adolescent desire, and the social and sexual roles of husbands and wives. In addition to offering close readings of these texts, it shows how the romances of the period were informed by ideas about gender which circulated in contemporary works such as manuals of chivalry, moral treatises, and marriage sermons. It thus aims not only to provide the first in-depth study of this little-known area of French literary history, but also to question the critical consensus on the role of gender in medieval romance that has arisen from an exclusive focus on earlier works in the genre.
This book's close engagement with romance, gender, and broader social discourses should make it a valuable contribution to both medieval gender studies and current research into the culture of the later Middle Ages.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: reassessing late medieval romance
'Récits d'armes et/ou d'amour': love, prowess and chivalric masculinity
Youthful folly in boys and girls: idyllic romance and the perils of adolescence in Pierre de Provence and Paris et Vienne
Husbands and wives in marital romance: the trials of male adultery, bigamy, and repudiation
Incestuous desire versus marital love: rewriting the tale of the 'maiden without hands' in versions of the Manekine and the Roman du Comte d'Anjou
Conclusion: romance in a moralising culture
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