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Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative

By J. A. Burrow

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780511016660, 0521815649, 0511483244, 0511016662, 9780511483240, 9780521815642
LCC
PN682.N65 B87 2002
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
654 kB (669265 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Pages
214\214
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Gestures and looks played an even more important role in public and private exchanges of medieval society, than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this compelling study, medievalist Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a range of narrative texts, including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, the romances of Chr?tien de Troyes, the prose Lancelot, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, and Dante's Commedia.

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