The inner life of women in medieval romance literature : grief, guilt, and hypocrisy

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The inner life of women in medieval romance literature : grief, guilt, and hypocrisy

edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman

(The new Middle Ages)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.

Table of Contents

  • The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature
  • J.Rider Order, Anarchy and Emotion in the Old French Philomena
  • K.G.Casebier What Was She Thinking? Ysolt on the Edge
  • B.Grigoriu Moral Posturing: Virtue in Christine de Pisan's Livre de Trois Vertus
  • S.C.Mitchell Gesture, Emotion, and Humanity: Depictions of Melusine in the Upton House Bearsted Fragments
  • T.Colwell Is She Angry or Just Sad? Grief and Sorrow in the Songs of the Trobairitz
  • H.Verhoosel Between Concealment and Eloquence: The Idea of the Ideal Woman in Medieval Provencal Literature
  • J.Rudin Spiritual and Biological Mothering in Berceo's Vida de Santa Oria
  • E.C.Francomano Writing as Resistance: Self and Survival in Leonor Lopez de Cordoba and Teresa de Cartagena
  • V.Rivera-Cordero Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Limits of Female Interiority in the Knight's Tale
  • J.Friedman In Laura's Shadow: Casting Female Humanists as Petrarchan Beloveds in Quattrocento Letters
  • A.A.Feng

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