The medieval risk-reward society : courts, adventure, and love in the European Middle Ages /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- The cultural action ; Toward a cultural game theory ; The new medieval move ; A race of four cities: Troy, Jericho, Rome, and Jerusalem
- The medieval self as bankroll ; The city of God: otherness as a global parameter of action ; The city of God: sameness as a global parameter of action loss, reiteration, growth ; The new medieval move exemplified
- Rules of the house ; Courtly representation as aristocratic competition ; Investitures: a diachronic view of the political action
- The poetic action ; Wars, tournaments, verses: the place of poetry at court ; Benchmarks of performance ; The vernacular as poetic resource ; Stars in competition
- Adventure as a cultural wager ; Dynamics of adventure ; Highlights from Chretien de Troyes's Erec et Enide ; Highlights from Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
- Love as a cultural wager ; Dynamics of love ; Highlights from Marie de France's Lanval ; Highlights from Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan
- The modern self in play ; The global as individual ; Reformation moves ; Enlightenment moves ; A gilded-age Connecticut Yankee adventures for high stakes ; Emancipation, totalitarianism, and the (post)modern action.