Telling the story in the Middle Ages: essays in honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz

Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this period, not only entertainment; it was central to the law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. The...

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Other Authors: Duys, Kathryn A. (Editor), Postlewate, Laurie 1957- (Editor), Emery, Elizabeth ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge D.S. Brewer 2015
Series:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England))
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Summary:Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this period, not only entertainment; it was central to the law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. The essays in this volume raise and discuss a number of questions concerning the strategies, contexts and narratalogical features of medieval storytelling. They look particularly at who tells the story; the audience; how a story is told and performed; and the manuscript and social context for such tales. Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer, Department of French, Barnard College; Kathryn Duys is Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of St Francis; Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French, Montclair State University
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 262 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782044840
DOI:10.1017/9781782044840

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