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Rites of passage, cultures of transition in the fourteenth century, edited by Nicola F. McDonald and W.M. Ormrod

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Rites of passage, cultures of transition in the fourteenth century, edited by Nicola F. McDonald and W.M. Ormrod

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rites of passage

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

226865033

Responsibility statement

edited by Nicola F. McDonald and W.M. Ormrod

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

cultures of transition in the fourteenth century

Summary

'Rites of passage' is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines consider the various theoretical models - folklorist, anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse cultures of transition in the history and literature of fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts, from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes to the process of change in lifecycle, status, gender and power. A substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture. Contributors: JOEL BURDEN, PATRICIA CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, JANE GILBERT, SARAH KAY, MARK ORMROD, HELEN PHILLIPS, MIRI RUBIN, SHARON WELLS. NICOLA F. McDONALD is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, W.M ORMROD Professor of Medieval History, University of York.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Re-writing a rite of passage : the peculiar funeral of Edward II / Joel Burden -- Coming to kingship : boy kings and the passage to power in fourteenth-century England / W.M. Ormrod -- Boy/man into clerk/priest : the making of the late medieval clergy / P.H. Cullum -- Manners maketh man : living, dining and becoming a man in the later Middle Ages / Sharon Wells -- Rites of passage in French and English romances / Helen Phillips -- Becoming a woman in Chaucer : 'on ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' / Jane Gilbert -- John Gower's fear of flying : transitional masculinities in the Confessio amantis -- Isabel davis -- 'Le moment de conclure' : initiation as retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux -- Sarah Kay

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