French romance of the later Middle Ages : gender, morality, and desire /
This study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 16 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. The text examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as maid...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 16 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. The text examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as maidens, daughters, wives, and mothers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191564956 0191564958 9780199554140 0199554145 9780191721069 0191721069 1281853380 9781281853387 9786611853389 6611853383 |