Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, and as a concept that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic realities. Several essays reveal how courtliness is subject to satire or is the subject of exhortation in works intended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843358
• ISBN13: 9781843843351
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"