Villainy in France (1463-1610)
Title | Villainy in France (1463-1610) PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Patterson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198840012 |
Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice—villainy—in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies both fictitious and historical; literature sometimes instantiated the process of redress, and enabled the transmission of conflicts from one context to another. Villainy in France follows this overflowing current of pre-modern French culture, examining its impact within France and across the English Channel. Scholars and cultural critics of the Anglophone world have long been fascinated by villainy and villains. This book reveals the subject's significant 'Frenchness' and establishes a transcultural approach to it in law and literature. In this study, villainy's particular significance emerges through its representation in authors remembered for their less-than respectable, even criminal, activities: François Villon, Clément Marot, François Rabelais, Pierre de L'Estoile, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman. Villainy in France affords legal-literary comparison of these authors alongside many of their lesser-known contemporaries; in so doing, it reinterprets French conflicts within a wider European context, from the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.
Villainy in France (1463-1610)
Title | Villainy in France (1463-1610) PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Patterson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192576283 |
Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice—villainy—in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies both fictitious and historical; literature sometimes instantiated the process of redress, and enabled the transmission of conflicts from one context to another. Villainy in France follows this overflowing current of pre-modern French culture, examining its impact within France and across the English Channel. Scholars and cultural critics of the Anglophone world have long been fascinated by villainy and villains. This book reveals the subject's significant 'Frenchness' and establishes a transcultural approach to it in law and literature. In this study, villainy's particular significance emerges through its representation in authors remembered for their less-than respectable, even criminal, activities: François Villon, Clément Marot, François Rabelais, Pierre de L'Estoile, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman. Villainy in France affords legal-literary comparison of these authors alongside many of their lesser-known contemporaries; in so doing, it reinterprets French conflicts within a wider European context, from the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.
Edward the Second
Title | Edward the Second PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review
Title | French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 828 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Acadia |
ISBN |
The Roaring Girl
Title | The Roaring Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780719016301 |
Ward was in a New York banking family, brother of Julia Ward Howe, married into the Astor family, was in the Gold Rush, involved in the social life of New York and London, and was an epicure. He was also a very powerful lobbying influence on Congress and an author. His family connections and friends were prominent in many fields.
The Century Cyclopedia of Names
Title | The Century Cyclopedia of Names PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Eli Smith |
Publisher | New York : The Century Company |
Pages | 1114 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN |
From Aesop to Reynard
Title | From Aesop to Reynard PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Mann |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780199217687 |
Bringing together material in English, French, and Latin,this book analyzes the shrewd perceptions about human life and language that emerge from beast narratives. Works discussed include the Speculum stultorum of Nigel of Longchamp, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, The Fox and the Wolf, and the Moral Fabillis of Robert Henryson.