Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeAlan Shepard, Stephen David Powell Powell Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004 - 306 páginas For medieval and early modern Europeans, contemporary culture was often refracted through the legend of Troy, arguably the most important set of stories outside the Bible for centuries of western European history. These stories were transmitted in dozens of competing versions, and contemporary local events were habitually understood in the context of a pagan legend whose origins were remote and whose mandate was ambiguous. The fifteen essays in this volume offer compelling new treatments of these now-evaporated fantasies of Troy, which were central to the European social imaginary. The essays consider texts and performances of Troy across a wide generic range, from learned court poetry to burlesque, from treatises on linguistic history to public spectacles. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
How Troy Came to Spenser | 15 |
Marlowes Gnostic | 39 |
The Irish Destruction of Troy on | 81 |
The Disappearance of the Trojan Legend | 97 |
Christine de Pizans Hector | 133 |
et exemples héroïques | 149 |
11 | 163 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles Aeneas Aeneid appears argues authority become beginning Book British Britomart century Christine claims classical critics cultural death early modern edition empire England English epic Faerie fall Fame Faustus figure France French future give Greek Hamlet Hector Helen Henry Henry's Homer House human imagine Ireland Irish Italy James John king language later Latin learned legend less lines linguistic literary Literature London Lucrece manuscript matter means medieval memory myth narrative nature origins Paridell Paridell's Paris passage past play poem poetry poets political present Prince Queene question readers references Renaissance rhetorical Roman Rome Seege sense Shakespeare Spenser story Studies suggest Surrey Surrey's things tradition Trans translation Trojan Troy turn University Press Venetian Venice Virgil writing