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Romans de chevalerie du Moyen Age grec
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ISSN: 11504129 ISBN: 9782251339498 2251339493 Year: 2007 Volume: 49 Publisher: Paris : Belles lettres,

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Alexandre le Grand : héros chrétien en Éthiopie : histoire d'Alexandre (Zênâ Eskender)
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ISBN: 9789042918900 9782877239660 904291890X 2877239667 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,

Debating the Roman de la rose : a critical anthology
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ISBN: 0415967651 9780415967655 9780203944608 9781135885878 9781135885823 9781135885861 9780415808927 0415808928 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York: Routledge,


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The English "Loathly lady" tales : boundaries, traditions, motifs
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ISBN: 9781580441230 9781580441247 1580441238 1580441246 Year: 2007 Volume: 48 Publisher: Kalamazoo Medieval Institute publications

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“In the earliest versions [of the Loathly Lady tales], the Irish sovereignty hag tales, her excessive body allegorizes the nature of sovereignty; the Loathly Lady is the shape of success in power contestation. Because the vehicle of the allegory is gendered, however, and because the motif’s fictional flesh is sexually active, these ideas about control are entangled with personal power politics. These factors make the motif curiously promiscuous, an intersection of ideas that generates other ideas, sometimes unexpectedly, always provocatively. . . . “ This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and John Gower’s “Tale of Florent” are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,” the balladic versions—the “Marriage of Sir Gawain” and “King Henry” (and even “Thomas of Erceldoune”)—all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heretosexual relations, and about national identity.”—from the Introduction

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