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In contrast to the widespread view that the Middle Ages were a static, unchanging period in which attitudes to women were uniformly negative, D. H. Green argues that around 1200 the conventional relationship between men and women was subject to significant challenge through discussions in the vernacular literature of the period. Hitherto scholarly interest in gender relations in such literature has largely focused on French romance or on literature in English from a later period. By turning the focus on the rich material to be garnered from Germany - the romances Erec, Tristan and Parzival - Professor Green shows how some vernacular writers devised methods to debate and challenge the undoubted antifeminism of the day by presenting a Utopian model, supported by a revision of views by the Church, to contrast with contemporary practice.
Arthurian romances --- Marriage in literature --- Romances, German --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism --- Women in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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“The most important part of the title of this book is the word ‘and’.” These words form the memorable conclusion to D.H. Green’s study Medieval Listening and Reading, they encapsulate how, in the Middle Ages, orality and literacy are not to be considered as two separate and largely unrelated cultures or modes of textual transmission, but as elements in a mutual interplay and interpenetration. In this volume, scholars from Britain, Germany and North America follow Green’s insistence on the conjunction of medieval orality and literacy, and show how this approach can open up new areas for investigation as well as help to reformulate old problems. The languages and literatures covered include English, Latin, French, Occitan and German, and the essays span the whole of the period from the early Middle Ages through to the fifteenth century.
930.85.42 --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Literacy --- Literature, Medieval --- Oral tradition in literature. --- Oral tradition --- History --- History and criticism. --- Oral tradition in literature --- History and criticism --- Beschavingsgeschiedenis --- Green, Denis Howard --- Histoire des civilisations --- Huldeboeken --- Letterkunde van de Middeleeuwen --- Littérature du Moyen Age --- Mélanges --- Tradition orale --- Littérature médiévale --- Tradition orale dans la littérature --- Alphabétisation --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Green, Dennis Howard, --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Oral tradition - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Literacy - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Green, D. H.
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