The medieval warrior aristocracy: gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred
A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages [10th-12th centuries] among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and v...
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| Summary: | A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages [10th-12th centuries] among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to a concept of the sacred, which anchored and governed the performances, providing the goal and rationale of social and military action. After focussing on anthropological theory, social history, and chronicles, the author turns to the "literary" persona of the hero as seen in the epic. He argues that the hero was specifically a narrative touchstone used for reflection on the nature and limits of aggressive identity formation among the medieval warrior elite; the hero can be seen, from a theoretical perspective, as a 'supplement' to his own society, who both perfectly incarnated its values but also, in attaining full integrity, short-circuited the very mechanisms of identity formation and reciprocity which undergirded the society. The book shows that the relationship between warriors, heroes, and their opponents (especially Saracens) must be understood as a complex, tri-partite structure - not a simple binary opposition - in which the identity of each constituent depends on the other two. ANDREW COWELL is Associate Professor of the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Linguistics, at the University of Colorado |
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| contents | The power of giving -- The symbolic constitution of the giving subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard -- Violence and "taking": towards a generalized symbolic economy -- Taking an identity: The poem of the Cid -- The sacred kept -- The hero, gratuity and alterity: The song of Roland -- The supplemental hero: Raoul of Cambrai -- Female integrity and masculine desires in The Nibelungenlied -- Fractured identities, and the solution of chivalry: William of Orange -- Conclusion: a new, different warrior aristocracy |
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| spelling | Cowell, Andrew 1963- Verfasser aut The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred Andrew Cowell Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2007 1 online resource (198 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) The power of giving -- The symbolic constitution of the giving subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard -- Violence and "taking": towards a generalized symbolic economy -- Taking an identity: The poem of the Cid -- The sacred kept -- The hero, gratuity and alterity: The song of Roland -- The supplemental hero: Raoul of Cambrai -- Female integrity and masculine desires in The Nibelungenlied -- Fractured identities, and the solution of chivalry: William of Orange -- Conclusion: a new, different warrior aristocracy A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages [10th-12th centuries] among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to a concept of the sacred, which anchored and governed the performances, providing the goal and rationale of social and military action. After focussing on anthropological theory, social history, and chronicles, the author turns to the "literary" persona of the hero as seen in the epic. He argues that the hero was specifically a narrative touchstone used for reflection on the nature and limits of aggressive identity formation among the medieval warrior elite; the hero can be seen, from a theoretical perspective, as a 'supplement' to his own society, who both perfectly incarnated its values but also, in attaining full integrity, short-circuited the very mechanisms of identity formation and reciprocity which undergirded the society. The book shows that the relationship between warriors, heroes, and their opponents (especially Saracens) must be understood as a complex, tri-partite structure - not a simple binary opposition - in which the identity of each constituent depends on the other two. ANDREW COWELL is Associate Professor of the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Linguistics, at the University of Colorado Geschichte 500-1500 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Geschichte Heroes in literature Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Aristocracy (Social class) / History / To 1500 Ceremonial exchange / History / To 1500 Identity (Psychology) Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Schwertadel (DE-588)4365836-2 gnd rswk-swf Ritter Motiv (DE-588)4115772-2 gnd rswk-swf Held Motiv (DE-588)4159483-6 gnd rswk-swf Europa (DE-588)4015701-5 gnd rswk-swf Europa (DE-588)4015701-5 g Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Held Motiv (DE-588)4159483-6 s Geschichte 500-1500 z 1\p DE-604 Ritter Motiv (DE-588)4115772-2 s 2\p DE-604 Schwertadel (DE-588)4365836-2 s Geschichte z 3\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-1-84384-123-4 http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846155727/type/BOOK Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Cowell, Andrew 1963- The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred The power of giving -- The symbolic constitution of the giving subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard -- Violence and "taking": towards a generalized symbolic economy -- Taking an identity: The poem of the Cid -- The sacred kept -- The hero, gratuity and alterity: The song of Roland -- The supplemental hero: Raoul of Cambrai -- Female integrity and masculine desires in The Nibelungenlied -- Fractured identities, and the solution of chivalry: William of Orange -- Conclusion: a new, different warrior aristocracy Geschichte Heroes in literature Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Aristocracy (Social class) / History / To 1500 Ceremonial exchange / History / To 1500 Identity (Psychology) Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Schwertadel (DE-588)4365836-2 gnd Ritter Motiv (DE-588)4115772-2 gnd Held Motiv (DE-588)4159483-6 gnd |
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| title | The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred |
| title_auth | The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred |
| title_exact_search | The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred |
| title_full | The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred Andrew Cowell |
| title_fullStr | The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred Andrew Cowell |
| title_full_unstemmed | The medieval warrior aristocracy gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred Andrew Cowell |
| title_short | The medieval warrior aristocracy |
| title_sort | the medieval warrior aristocracy gifts violence performance and the sacred |
| title_sub | gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred |
| topic | Geschichte Heroes in literature Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Aristocracy (Social class) / History / To 1500 Ceremonial exchange / History / To 1500 Identity (Psychology) Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Schwertadel (DE-588)4365836-2 gnd Ritter Motiv (DE-588)4115772-2 gnd Held Motiv (DE-588)4159483-6 gnd |
| topic_facet | Geschichte Heroes in literature Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Aristocracy (Social class) / History / To 1500 Ceremonial exchange / History / To 1500 Identity (Psychology) Literatur Schwertadel Ritter Motiv Held Motiv Europa |
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