The anonymous Marie de France /
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| Author / Creator: | Bloch, R. Howard. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003. |
| Description: | xi, 367 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4869839 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The WordAventureand the Adventure of Words Aventure Lai History, Philology, and the Quest for Origins The Obligation to Speak The Will to Remember "Guigemar"
- Chapter 2. If Words Could Kill: TheLaisand Fatal Speech Mariemal mariée "Lanval" and "Laüstic" "Equitan" and "Le Fresne" "Bisclavret"
- Chapter 3. The Voice in the Tomb of theLais "Eliduc" "Les Deus Amanz" and "Chaitivel" "Milun" and "Chevrefoil" "Yonec"
- Chapter 4. Beastly Talk: TheFables The Fables and theLais Speech Acts in theFables An Ethics of Language
- Chapter 5. Changing Places: TheFablesand Social Mobility at the Court of Henry II Scholasticism and the Fables Abelardian Ethics Appetite and Envy Logic and the Body Changing Habitat Social Mobility
- Chapter 6. Marie's Fables and the Rise of the Monarchic State Right Reason and the Moral Town and Court and Royal Peace Measure, Timing, and Alertness Marie's Social Contract
- Chapter 7. A Medieval "Best Seller" Chivalric Adventure Doors In and Out of the Otherworld In and Out of Another Tongue Making the Dead Speak
- Chapter 8. Between Fable and Romance Making the Dead See Testimony and Transcription Genesis of the Tale Remembering What the Dead Have Said and Seen
- Chapter 9. The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland and the Colonization of the Afterlife Patrick the Administrator The Norman and Irish Peace Movement Ecclesiastical Reform and the Cistercian Presence The Civil Governance of Captured Land The Invention of Purgatory and the Bureaucratization of the Afterlife Purgatory and the Law
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index