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Medieval Boundaries : Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202489
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval BoundariesDDC classification:
  • 840.9/001
LOC classification:
  • PQ151 -- .K56 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Epic Revisions -- 1: "Pagans are Wrong and Christians are Right": From Parias to Crusade in the Chanson De Roland -- 2: The Politics of Courtly Love: La Prise D' Orange and the Conversion of the Saracen Queen -- Part II: Romances of Assimilation -- 3: "In The Beginning Was the Road": Floire et Blancheflor in the Medieval Mediterranean -- 4: Colonial Possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman Imaginary in the Lais of Marie de France -- Part III: Crisis and Change in the Thirteenth Century -- 5: Brave New Worlds: Robert de Clari's La Conquête de Constantinople -- 6: The Romance of Miscegenation: Negotiating Identities in la Fille du Comte de Pontieu -- 7: Uncivil Wars: Imagining Community in la Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "Kinoshita has produced a book of major importance. Her command of the Francophone Middle Ages should exert an important critical influence on the greater field of Middle English and should also be recognized as an important contribution to the prehistory of postcolonial studies."--David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Epic Revisions -- 1: "Pagans are Wrong and Christians are Right": From Parias to Crusade in the Chanson De Roland -- 2: The Politics of Courtly Love: La Prise D' Orange and the Conversion of the Saracen Queen -- Part II: Romances of Assimilation -- 3: "In The Beginning Was the Road": Floire et Blancheflor in the Medieval Mediterranean -- 4: Colonial Possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman Imaginary in the Lais of Marie de France -- Part III: Crisis and Change in the Thirteenth Century -- 5: Brave New Worlds: Robert de Clari's La Conquête de Constantinople -- 6: The Romance of Miscegenation: Negotiating Identities in la Fille du Comte de Pontieu -- 7: Uncivil Wars: Imagining Community in la Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

"Kinoshita has produced a book of major importance. Her command of the Francophone Middle Ages should exert an important critical influence on the greater field of Middle English and should also be recognized as an important contribution to the prehistory of postcolonial studies."--David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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