TY - BOOK ID - 6981960 TI - Rites of passage : cultures of transition in the fourteenth century AU - McDonald, Nicola AU - Ormrod, William Mark PY - 2004 SN - 1903153158 9781903153154 9781846152818 9786611949945 1281949949 184615281X PB - York: York medieval Press, DB - UniCat KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Fourteenth century KW - Civilization, Medieval - 14th century. KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - Rites de passage KW - 14e siècle KW - Congrès KW - Fourteenth-century Europe. KW - Gender. KW - Lifecycle. KW - Rites of passage. KW - Status. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6981960 AB - Rites of passage' is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines consider the various theoretical models - folklorist, anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse cultures of transition in the history and literature of fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts, from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes to the process of change in lifecycle, status, gender and power. A substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture. ER -