Mediæval France

Author : David John Athole Ross
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
ISBN : 2503581056

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Illustrated Medieval Alexander-books in French Verse by David John Athole Ross Pdf

"The core of this book on the French verse Alexander in France and Italy was written by eminent Alexander specialist David J.A. Ross, who left an incomplete typescript at his death. In its emphasis on illustration, this book offers new perspectives on the reception of one of the most popular medieval heroes. Ross's analysis of the illustrations proves that despite some convergent patterns there is no iconographic programme that coordinates the three major verse traditions as there is for the versions in prose. Nevertheless, the verse versions continued to be copied and illustrated long after the emergence of prose. The editors have expanded Ross's text, as he wished, to include a comparative analysis of the iconography and they have situated each manuscript as far as possible in its cultural context, demonstrating that the producers of the verse Alexander were also responsible for writing and illustrating a large number of other vernacular and liturgical books in Northern France, Paris, the South, and Italy. This volume is a sequel to Ross's Studies in the Alexander Romance and his Illustrated medieval Alexander-books in Germany and the Netherlands, and makes available an extensive corpus of high-quality images of this great hero."--

Author : Gustave Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : France
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037343771

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Mediaeval France by Gustave Masson Pdf

Author : Gustave Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : France
ISBN : UCR:31210002281820

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Mediaeval France from the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Gustave Masson Pdf

Author : Sidney Painter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421433172

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French Chivalry by Sidney Painter Pdf

Originally published in 1940. Chivalry denotes the ideals and practices considered suitable for a noble. The word itself is reminiscent of the aristocratic society of medieval France dominated by mounted warriors. As early as the eleventh century, several different views of chivalric standards and behavior had appeared. During the next four hundred years, these conceptions of the ideal nobleman were developed by and for the feudal ruling class. French Chivalry studies chivalry from the perspectives of both social history and the history of ideas. The first chapter provides readers unfamiliar with medieval history the background required for understanding the chapters on chivalry.

Author : Murielle Gaude-Ferragu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349930289

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Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500 by Murielle Gaude-Ferragu Pdf

This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last medieval French queens played an essential role in the monarchy, not only because they bore the weight of their dynasty’s destiny but also because they embodied royal majesty alongside their husbands. Since women were excluded from the French crown in 1316, they were only deemed as “queen consorts.” Far from being confined solely to the private sphere, however, these queens participated in the communication of power and contributed to the proper functioning of “court society.” From Isabeau of Bavaria and her political influence during her husband’s intermittent absences to Anne of Brittany’s reign, this book sheds light on the meaning and complexity of the office of queen and ultimately the female history of power.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826431967

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Medieval France and her Pyrenean Neighbours by Thomas N. Bisson Pdf

This collection of essays makes an important contribution to our knowledge of feudalism and finance in France and Spain. Divided into four sections, it covers the use rulers made of courts, parlements, and assemblies for ceremonial, political and fiscal purposes; the institutional formation of Catalonia; comparative studies of France, Catalonia and Aragon in the twelfth century; and monetary and fiscal policies of contemporary rulers.

Author : William W. Kibler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 2071 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824044442

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Medieval France by William W. Kibler Pdf

Arranged alphabetically, with a brief introduction that clearly defines the scope and purpose of the book. Illustrations include maps, B/W photographs, genealogical tables, and lists of architectural terms.

Author : John F. Benton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852850302

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Culture, Power and Personality in Medieval France by John F. Benton Pdf

This collection is a notable example of how the cultural history of the middle ages can be written in terms that satisfy both the historian and the literary scholar. John Benton's knowledge of the personnel, structure and finance of medieval courts complemented his understanding of the literature they produced.

Author : Erika Graham-Goering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489096

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Princely Power in Late Medieval France by Erika Graham-Goering Pdf

An in-depth study of coexisting social norms of princely power cutting across categories of hierarchy, gender, and collaborative rulership.

Author : Theodore Evergates
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200614

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Aristocratic Women in Medieval France by Theodore Evergates Pdf

Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite—from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights—had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power. The authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid-eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, and from regions as diverse as Blois-Chartres, Champagne, Flanders, and Occitania. They show not only the diversity of life experiences these women enjoyed but the range of social and political roles open to them. The ecclesiastical and secular sources they mine confirm that women were regarded as full members of both their natal and affinal families, were never excluded from inheriting and controlling property, and did not have their share of family property limited to dowries. Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society. Demonstrating the importance of aristocratic women in a period during which they have been too long assumed to have lacked influence, it forces us to reframe our understanding of the high Middle Ages.

Author : Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844143

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Sacred Fictions of Medieval France by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton Pdf

A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.

Author : Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843139

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Authorship and First-person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England by Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath Pdf

An examination of medieval vernacular allegories, across a number of languages, offers a new idea of what authorship meant in the late middle ages. The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author's role, since the protagonist who claims to compose thenarrative also directs the reader to interpret such claims. Moreover, the specific attributes of the narrator-protagonist bring greater attention to individual identity. But as the actual authors of the allegories also adapted elements found in each other's works, their shared literary tradition unites differing perspectives: the most celebrated French first-person allegory, the erotic Roman de la Rose, quickly inspired an allegorical trilogy of spiritual pilgrimage narratives by Guillaume de Deguileville. English authors sought recognition for their own literary activity through adaptation and translation from a tradition inspired by both allegories. This account examines Deguileville's underexplored allegory before tracing the tradition's importance to the English authors Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate, with particular attention to the mediating influence of French authors, including Christine de Pizan and Laurent de Premierfait. Through comparative analysis of the late medieval authors who shaped French and English literary canons, it reveals the seminal, communal model of vernacular authorship established by the tradition of first-person allegory. Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Author : Meredith Cohen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 075466757X

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Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France by Meredith Cohen Pdf

Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, presenting a fresh, intriguing perspective on the notion of belonging in the medieval world.

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631189459

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France in the Middle Ages 987-1460 by Georges Duby Pdf

In this book, now available in paperback, he examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid-tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc in the mid-fifteenth. He takes the evolution of power and the emergence of the French state as his central themes, and guides the reader through complex - and, in many respects, still unfamiliar, yet fascinating terrain. He describes the growth of the castle and the village, the building blocks of the new Western European civilization of the second millenium AD.

Author : Catherine Léglu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319906386

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Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French by Catherine Léglu Pdf

Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French in medieval England, examining the multiple versions of the Samson narrative via its many adaptations into verse, prose, visual art and musical. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, this text draws together examples from several genres and media, focusing on the importance of book learning to secular works. In analysing this Biblical narrative, Léglu reveals the importance of the Samson and Delilah story as a point of entry into a fuller understanding of medieval translations and adaptations of the Bible.