ISBN:
9780814282199
,
0814282199
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (299 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Women's friendship in medieval literature
DDC:
809/.9335220902
Keywords:
Female friendship in literature
;
Literature, Medieval History and criticism
;
Frauenfreundschaft
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
Female friendships and visionary women / Jennifer N. Brown -- The foundations of friendship: Amicitia, literary production, and spiritual community in Marie de France / Stella Wang -- Friendship and resistance in the Vitae of Italian holy women / Andrea Boffa -- Sisters and friends: the medieval nuns of Syon Abbey / Alexandra Verini -- "Amonge maydenes moo": gender-based community, racial thinking, and aristocratic women's work in Emaré / Lydia Yaitsky Kertz -- Women's communities and the possibility of friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Usha Vishnuvajjala -- Female friendship in late medieval English literature: cultural translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- Cultivating cummarship: female friendship, alcohol, and pedagogical community in the alewife poem / Carissa M. Harris -- "All these relationships between women": Chaucer and the Bechdel test for female friendship / Karma Lochrie -- The politics of virtual friendship in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / Christine Chism -- Prosthetic friendship and the theater of fraternity / Laurie A. Finke -- Conversations among friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the arts of storytelling / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing -- Afterword: Friendship at a distance / Penelope Anderson.
Abstract:
"Explores literary representations of medieval women's friendships and contextualizes them in medieval history as well as the philosophy of friendship through works by Chaucer, Gower, Malory, Marie de France, female saints, late Middle Scots poets, as well as late medieval lyrics and Middle English romances"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 271 - 292
