A01=Dominique Battles
Author_Dominique Battles
Boccaccio's Teseida
Boccaccio’s Teseida
Book III
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Category=NHB
Chaucer's Knight's Tale
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
Chronicle Accounts
classical reception studies
dares
epic narrative analysis
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Eteocles and Polynices conflict
Funeral Games
Guido Delle Colonne's Historia
Guido Delle Colonne’s Historia
Henry Ii Plantagenet
history
intertextuality in poetry
Knight's Tale
knights
Knight’s Tale
Lactantius Placidus
legend
Lemnian Women
Lydgate's Siege
Lydgate’s Siege
Medieval Accessus
medieval literature
medieval Theban legend reinterpretation
Part III
phrygius
roman
Roman De
Roman De Troie
tale
theban
Theban Heroes
Theban History
Theban Legend
Theban Tradition
Theban War
Translatio Imperii
troie
Trojan History
Trojan War
vernacular adaptations
war
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415969932
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As the story of the war between the sons of Oedipus and their cursed race, the Theban legend rivaled that of Troy in popularity and importance for medieval poets and audiences. Dominique Battles explores the vernacular Theban narratives of the Middle Ages, including the Old French Roman de Thebes (1154), Boccaccio's Teseida , Chaucer's Theban poems (Anelida and Arcite (1370s), the Knights Tale , and the Theban subtext of the Troilus (1380s)), and John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes (1422). The Medieval Tradition of Thebes constitutes the first comprehensive study of the classical legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages. Far from representing a single consistent legend, the story of the civil war between Eteocles and Polynices took on a variety of forms and purposes, each of which presents its own historical paradigm. By tracing the relationship between these texts, Battles demonstrates how each succeeding adaptation of Thebes builds upon and challenges those before it.
Dominique Battles received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Hanover College
