Courtly love undressed :reading through clothes in medieval French culture
- 作者: Burns, E. Jane,
- 出版: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2002.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (326 pages).
- 叢書名: The Middle Ages series
- 標題: History and criticism. , EuropeanFrench. , Courtly love in literature. , Clothing and dress in literature. , French literature , LITERARY CRITICISM European -- French. , LITERARY CRITICISM , To 1500 , Electronic books. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , French literature To 1500 -- History and criticism. , French literature.
- ISBN: 0812219309 , 9780812219302
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index. Fortune's gown: material extravagance and the opulence of love -- Amorous attire: dressing up for love -- Love's stitches undone: women's work in the chanson de toile -- Robes, armor, and skin -- From woman's nature to nature's dress -- Saracen silk: dolls, idols, and courtly ladies -- Golden spurs: love in the eastern world of Floire et blancheflor.
- 摘要: In the later Middle Ages clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns explores the representation of this material culture in the literary texts and other documents that imagine various functions for elite clothing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.
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Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns "reads through clothes" in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and symbolic space as well as social class. Reading through clothes reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of naturally derived categories of woman and man. The symbolic identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that brought luxury cloth to France.
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