Love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature : martyrs to love /

Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the countess of Tripoli, having loved her from afar without ever having seen her. Or in Marie de France's Chevrefoil, Tristan and Iseult&...

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Gaunt, Simon
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Zusammenfassung:
Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the countess of Tripoli, having loved her from afar without ever having seen her. Or in Marie de France's Chevrefoil, Tristan and Iseult's fatal love is hauntingly symbolized by the fatally entwined honeysuckle and hazel. And who could forget the ethereal spectacle of the Damoisele of Escalot's body carried to Camelot on asupernatural funerary boat with a letter on her breast explaining how her unrequited love for Lancelot killed her? Medieval
Umfang:
1 online resource (248 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-153402-1
1-280-90566-2
9786610905669
1-4356-2276-6
Schlagworte:
French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Provençal literature > History and criticism.
Courtly love in literature.
Death in literature.
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