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This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of the medieval troubadour in modern love songs, the legacy of figures such as Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin in modern film and literature, and more generally, how courtly and chivalric conceptions of love have shaped the Western world's conception of love, loyalty, honor, and adultery throughout history and to this day.
List of contents
1 Introduction.- 2 The Failures of Courtly Love in Three Late Medieval Glosses: The Arthurian Knight Remythified Ovidian.- 3 Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and the Fabliau.- 4 Villon's Dreams of the Courtly.- 5 "You Make me Want to be a Better Man": Courtly Values Revived in Modern Film.- 6 From Marie de France to J.K. Rowling: the Weasel.- 7 Courtly Literature: "Yesterday" is Today.- 8 Variations on a Transcultural Phenomenon: The Potion Scene in Four Film Versions of the Legend of Tristan and Iseult.- 9 The Musical Incongruities of Time Travel in Arthurian Film.- 10 . The Fool and the Wise Man: The Legacy of the Two Merlins in Modern Culture.- 11 A Legacy of Japanese Courtly Literature: The Imperial New Year Poetry Recitation Ceremony.
About the author
Deborah Nelson-Campbell is Professor of French Studies at Rice University, USA.
Rouben Cholakian is Professor Emeritus of French at Hamilton College, USA.
Summary
This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of the medieval troubadour in modern love songs, the legacy of figures such as Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin in modern film and literature, and more generally, how courtly and chivalric conceptions of love have shaped the Western world’s conception of love, loyalty, honor, and adultery throughout history and to this day.
Report
"The book title is well chosen, with the subtitle underscoring even further the double perspective pursued here. The book contains eleven articles in which the world of the medieval courts and its impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, music, and film are discussed. ... The volume concludes with a welcome index." (Albrecht Classen, Mediaevistik, Vol. 31 (1), 2018)
