Medievalists.net » The Romance of the Rose http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Valentine’s Day Medieval Love: Books for that special someone http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/02/valentines-day-medieval-love-books-for-that-special-someone/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/02/valentines-day-medieval-love-books-for-that-special-someone/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:11:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47246 Love is in the air! Here are a few medieval books on the topic of love for your Valentine.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/02/valentines-day-medieval-love-books-for-that-special-someone/feed/ 0 Time, consciousness and narrative play in late Medieval secular dream poetry and framed narratives http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:11:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43858 This thesis proposes to look at the equation between time and text in the later medieval period. Time-telling and tale-telling have a particularly dynamic relationship in the considers time-telling and temporal referencein an era (c.1230 - 1500) that time-measurement multiple cultural experiencesa greatvariety of types of and
attitudes to time.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives/feed/ 0 Looking Back: Medieval French Romance and the Dynamics of Seeing http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/looking-back-medieval-french-romance-and-the-dynamics-of-seeing/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/looking-back-medieval-french-romance-and-the-dynamics-of-seeing/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:53:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38237 This dissertation builds upon the work of feminist medievalists and other literary and cultural scholars to argue that sight, and objects that are seen, articulate love relationships between characters in medieval romances, and that seeing is frequently a locus of resistance to gender norms the texts both establish and refuse to accept.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/looking-back-medieval-french-romance-and-the-dynamics-of-seeing/feed/ 0 Chaucer’s costume rhetoric in his portrait of the Prioress http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/chaucers-costume-rhetoric-in-his-portrait-of-the-prioress/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/chaucers-costume-rhetoric-in-his-portrait-of-the-prioress/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:06:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36407 No critic has ever discussed costume signs in order to reveal to what extent the Prioress does or does not conform in her costume to the fourteenth century norm, with consideration given, simultaneously, to the historical records, literature and visual arts of the period that form and inform the signs from the many traditions Chaucer in corporates in his portrait of the Prioress.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/chaucers-costume-rhetoric-in-his-portrait-of-the-prioress/feed/ 0 Constructions of Gender in Medieval Welsh Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/constructions-of-gender-in-medieval-welsh-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/constructions-of-gender-in-medieval-welsh-literature/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:48:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32891 The discussion of gender in medieval literary criticism is generally considered
to be a relatively new field, having achieved real momentum only in the latter half of the twentieth century. However, since it was the early fifteenth century when Christine de Pisan wrote a response to Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose, it cannot really be imagined that the medieval audience was too primitive to be fully aware of the subtext inside their stories.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/constructions-of-gender-in-medieval-welsh-literature/feed/ 0 Love, Mercy, and Courtly Discourse: Marguerite de Navarre Reads Alain Chartier http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/love-mercy-and-courtly-discourse-marguerite-de-navarre-reads-alain-chartier/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/love-mercy-and-courtly-discourse-marguerite-de-navarre-reads-alain-chartier/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:45:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32887 Love, Mercy, and Courtly Discourse: Marguerite de Navarre Reads Alain Chartier Frelick, Nancy  (University of British Columbia) Mythes à la cour, mythes pour la four (2010). 325-36 Abstract In the Heptaméron, Marguerite de Navarre makes two direct references to Alain Chartier’s Belle Dame sans Mercy. Both references highlight the elaboration of lovesickness and courtly discourse as strategies of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/love-mercy-and-courtly-discourse-marguerite-de-navarre-reads-alain-chartier/feed/ 0 Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson on the Body Politic: The Limits of Intellectual Influence? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/christine-de-pizan-and-jean-gerson-on-the-body-politic-the-limits-of-intellectual-influence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/christine-de-pizan-and-jean-gerson-on-the-body-politic-the-limits-of-intellectual-influence/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:13:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29090 The present paper represents a small attempt to test competing hypotheses about the substance of the intellectual friendship between Christine and Jean by examining one overlapping theme in their respective body of writings: the organic metaphor between the human body and the political community.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/christine-de-pizan-and-jean-gerson-on-the-body-politic-the-limits-of-intellectual-influence/feed/ 0 Healing Leaves http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/27/healing-leaves/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/27/healing-leaves/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:50:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28216 Medieval French literature provides the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/27/healing-leaves/feed/ 0 ‘It’s a Magical World’: The Page in Comics and Medieval Manuscripts http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/14/its-a-magical-world-the-page-in-comics-and-medieval-manuscripts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/14/its-a-magical-world-the-page-in-comics-and-medieval-manuscripts/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:54:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27096 In this essay I examine the location in the material world that calls forth that cognitive frontier: the page.

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