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Author Olson, Glending.

Title Literature as recreation in the later Middle Ages / Glending Olson.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1982.

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Description 1 online resource (245 p.)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Medieval Attitudes toward Literary Pleasure -- 2. The Hygienic Justification -- 3. The Recreational Justification -- 4. Some Literature for Solace -- 5. From Plague to Pleasure -- 6. The Decameron and Its Early Critics -- Index of Sources -- Index
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Summary This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure-one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself-Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
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Language In English.
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Subject Literature and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Amusements -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Books and reading -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Books and reading.
Littérature et société -- Europe.
Spectacles et divertissements -- Histoire.
Civilisation médiévale.
Livres et lecture.
Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Amusements
Books and reading
Literature and society
Literature, Medieval
Europe https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxCxPbbk4CPJDQJb4r6rq
Letterkunde.
Lezen.
Amusement.
Middeleeuwen.
Chronological Term To 1500
Indexed Term Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Other Form: Print version: Literature as recreation in the later Middle Ages Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1982. 0801414946 (DLC) 82002462
ISBN 9781501746765 ebook
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0801414946
9781501746758 (electronic bk.)
1501746758 (electronic bk.)
9780801414947
Standard No. 10.7591/9781501746758 doi
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AU@ 000072026429
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