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Medieval Courtly Love: The Links between Courtly Love, Christianity, and the Roles of Women in Tennyson and Morris.
<p>The art of courtly love is difficult to pinpoint because there are many facets that extend into different areas. In the Pre-Raphaelite and Medieval periods, love was more formulated with rules, moral standards, and codes. Courtly love is often seen as the "love" practiced by kings, queens, and …
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Courtly mirrors: the politics of Chapman's drama
… that Chapman’s lack of success in securing courtly patronage, and his constant battle with indebtedness (which resulted in several court appearances and two imprisonments) left him divided in attitude towards the system of courtly reward – he resented his lack of success but continued to …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… transactions of class, gender and honour in the courtly space: ladies are made suitable for marriage through dresses, and a knight is forced to come to terms with the fallibility of his honour through his armour and a girdle. Vital to my investigation is the category of the body, on which …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… scene 1), but there is little reflection on the courtly love rules and conventions from most critical approaches. Courtly lovers were a dying breed in Shakespeare's time, yet he employs the use of basic courtly love principles not only in Othello, but in many of his works, particularly comedies …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love tales of chivalry that came out of medieval Europe. The Iberian Peninsula, the meeting point of France and Spain (the Pyrenees), harbored an exchange of culture in the twelfth century; this thesis will explore the themes of forbidden …
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'Gentille, curteyse, fulle delectabile': the courtly in Julian of Norwich's mystical practice and theology
… that draws significantly on the honour-based courtly identity of late-medieval England’s knightly class. Julian’s imagery depicts God in the roles of courtly lord and warrior knight, and herself and her readers as feudal retainers, fellow knights and loyal servants. This courtly imagery …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… Iron Age, so that when Denmark adopted European courtly culture, it did so simultaneously to its development in the rest of Europe. Because elite culture as it manifested itself in the Middle Ages was an amalgamation of that of Ancient Rome and the Germanic tribes, its origins in Denmark is …
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Dialogue and dialectic in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitan and old French courtly lyric and narrative
… debate contribute to the<br/>construction of the courtly subject in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Old French and Occitan lyric and narrative. It considers how debate and dialogue are informed by dialectic, which acts as a structural and thematic frame and gives courtly debate its distinctive …
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The Politics of Anti -Courtly Love Poetry: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies
… the late Elizabethan court. Yet when these anti-courtly love poems gained popularity in the early seventeenth century, collectors must have overlooked their original politics. For they regularly gathered these poems in manuscript verse miscellanies among verses that attack not Elizabeth's court …
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Women Troubadours in Southern France
… on the outward or social manifestations of the courtly love game and values, yet trobairitz focus on the intimate, private pleasures of love by deviating from generally accepted courtly love conventions and social behaviors. Since the subject of love is debated in these five tensons, the …
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Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Couples
… compliance with or rejection of the precepts of courtly love. In support of various arguments a selection of textual evidence has been advanced, frequently mixing expository digression, intertextuality, Wolfram's Selbstaussagen, and information provided by specific characters. The stipulation of …
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
… voices resist genre norms while reinforcing courtly behaviors and female stereotypes. In the pastourelles, shepherdesses’ refrains express resistance within male-framed narratives; when refrains are absent, the shepherdess is subject to violence. The contrast of registers and social …
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'Minne' and 'Gradualismus' in the Works of Wolfram Von Eschenbach: A Study of Wolfram's Development of the Problems of Courtly and Religious Love in the Light of Medieval 'Ordo'
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
Eighteenth-century paintings depicting the courtly culture of Udaipur have been widely described as iconic images representing the decadent "voluptuous inactivity" of Indian princes within idyllic palaces. More recently, scholars have interpreted such paintings as royal portraits constituting …
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‘On account of high merits’: The portrait medals of Isabella d’Este and the image of the female collector
… as a woman patron and collector within the courtly practices of Humanism. In particular, the discussion focuses on the ways in which the portrait medals functioned as a means of identity construction within both the private, elite space of her studiolo and wider realm of public exchange and …
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Texts and contexts: a study of aristocratic influence on Latin and vernacular historical narratives in twelfth century England
… of these histories and the literary trend for ‘courtly’ writing which some scholars have seen as reflecting lay aristocratic culture. This comparison demonstrates that these histories were influenced by networks of both lay and religious aristocrats. It discusses how so called ‘courtly elements’ …
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Gender as a resource of power at the early modern court of Württemberg, c. 1580-1630
… festival descriptions and servants registers, to courtly correspondences, juridical supplications and declarations have been consulted. This broad range of primary sources facilitates the investigation of the salience of gender difference both in the context of a courtly system heading a polity, …
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English King and German Commoner: An Exploration of Sixteenth Century Clothing and Identity
… for others, particularly through legislation and courtly life; while Schwarz' own words will assist in the exploration of the identity of the individual.</p>
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Gender and Genre in Medieval Chivalric Rímur
… and able-bodied. While the Norse adaptions of courtly romances were influential in shaping new modes of behaviour, I argue that, in these texts, there remain strong links to aristocratic behavioural models seen in earlier texts such as the kings’ sagas. The third part explores the portrayal of …
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