Norris J Lacy: 4 books
The Arthurian Handbook
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation...
Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages
Texts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1989
This volume examines the treatment and expression of love in medieval literature and art. These nineteen essays, contributed by recognized authorities on medieval romantic expression, consider a wide variety of texts from the following cultures: French, Arabic, Latin, Hispanic, Hebrew, Provencal,...
Arthurian Women
A Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women...
by Norris J. Lacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Detailed readings of 10, and lighter discussions of many others, of the 150 medieval French bawdy poems that scholars generally find it necessary to discuss as a whole, thereby missing important individual characteristics.