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Ancrene Wisse
Author_Neil M.R. Cartlidge
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Chrétien de Troyes
courtly love
English manuscripts
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ideology of marriage
legal thinking
letters of Abelard and Heloise
Life of St Christina of Markyate
literary texts
marriage
medieval thinking
Owl and the Nightingale
Oxford
Research Fellow
theological
Wolfson College
Product details
- ISBN 9780859915120
- Weight: 564g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1997
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.
This book uses literary texts to trace the development of medieval thinking about marriage in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, taking into account not only important developments in theological and legal thinking about marriage during this period, but conventions such as `courtly love', which affect its portrayal in literary texts. The focus of this study is upon England, and specifically three groups of texts linked together by English manuscripts -the `AB'-Group, containing the Ancrene Wisse; The Owl and the Nightingale and its companion-pieces; and finally the Life of St Christina of Markyate and the Chanson de Saint Alexiswhich she once owned. The author demonstrates the continuity of these texts in their attitude towards marriage, along with continental works such as the letters of Abelard and Heloise, and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide. Throughout, the volume clearly and accessibly shows how the imaginative literature of the period participated in the evolution of a new and enduring ideology of marriage.
Dr NEIL CARTLIDGEis a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK.
