Reading the Middle Ages : an introduction to medieval literature /
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| Author / Creator: | Steinberg, Theodore L. (Theodore Louis), 1947- |
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| Imprint: | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2003. |
| Description: | viii, 188 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4900974 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Religious Context
- Literacy and Reading
- The Medieval Poet
- Thinking Medievally
- On to the Literature
- I.. Beowulf
- On Digressions
- Of Kings and Monsters
- The Trouble with Geats
- Beowulf and the Question of Evil
- II.. Chretien de Troyes
- Epic and Romance
- Erec and Enide and Yvain
- Lancelot and Perceval
- III.. The Lais of Marie de France
- Medieval Women Writers
- The Lais
- IV.. The Romance of the Rose
- A Medieval "Best-Seller"
- Focusing on Love
- Guillaume's Dream
- Jean Takes Over
- V.. The Tale of Genji
- Leaving Europe
- Reading Genji
- VI.. Jewish Literature
- The Jews in Christian Europe
- The Jews in Moslem Spain
- VII.. Sagas
- Iceland and the Sagas
- Egil and Laxdoela
- Njal's Saga
- VIII.. Dante
- The High Point of the Middle Ages
- Hell
- Purgatory
- Paradise
- IX.. Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Fourteenth-Century England
- Pearl
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- X.. Chaucer
- Chaucer's Contemporaries
- Early Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales
- Epilogue (But Not a Retraction): From the Author to the Reader
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
