Nicola F. McDonald / W. M. Ormrod (eds.)

Rites of Passage

Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century
Herausgeber: Mcdonald, Nicola F; Ormrod, W M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as they affected individuals at all points of their lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781903153154
• ISBN-10: 1903153158
• Artikelnr.: 21816091

Autorenporträt

Nicola F. McDonald, W.M. Ormrod

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rites of Passage
Miri Rubin Re
writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II
Joel Burden Coming to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth
Century England
W. Mark Ormrod Boy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy
P H Cullum Manners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages
Sharon Wells Rites of Passage in French and English Romances
Helen Phillips Becoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt'
Jane Gilbert John Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis
`Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux
H S Kay