Edition |
Paperback ed. |
Description |
vii, 293 p. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Translation of: L'imaginaire medieval. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (p. 243-279) and index. |
Contents |
Marvelous in the medieval West -- Wilderness in the medieval West -- Perception of Christendom by the Roman curia and the organization of an Ecumenical Council in 1274 -- Time of Purgatory (third to thirteenth century) -- Time of the Exemplum (thirteenth century) -- Body and ideology in the medieval West -- Gestures in Purgatory -- Repudiation of pleasure -- Levi-Strauss in Broceliande : a brief analysis of a courtly romance -- Vestimentary and alimentary codes in Erec et Enide -- Warriors and conquering bourgeois : the image of the city in twelfth-century French literature -- Urban metaphor of William of Auvergne -- Social realities and ideological codes in the early thirteenth century : an Exemplum by James of Vitry -- Christianity and dreams (second to seventh century) -- Dreams of Helmbrecht the Elder. |
Subject |
French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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Marvelous, The, in literature.
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Fantasy literature, French -- History and criticism.
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Imagination.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Added Author |
Goldhammer, Arthur.
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ISBN |
0226470857 (pbk.) |
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