Allegory and sexual ethics in the High Middle Ages [electronic resource] / Noah D. Guynn.

Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory (its openness to multiple interpretations and perspectives) and its disciplinar...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Guynn, Noah D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Rhetoric, Evil, and Privation: From Augustine to the "Persecuting Society"
  • Sodomy, Courtly Love, and the Birth of Romance: Le roman d'Eneas
  • Allegory and Perversion in Alan of Lille's De planctu Naturae
  • Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose.