Brueghel''s Heavy Dancers - Transgressive Clothing Class and Culture in the Late Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor John Block Friedman is emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought, Orpheus in the Middle Ages, and Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages, all published by Syracuse University Press. He is currently working on an edition and translation of Secrets de l'Histoire Naturelle, a fifteenth-century French collection of geographical wonders. Klappentext Reveals how portrayals of peasants from the literature of the Golden Age of Virgilian Pastoral, who behave according to their social station, were increasingly replaced in the Middle Ages by portrayals that present the realistic peasant, whose outrageous behavior betrays his or her class while it threatens those who stand 'above'. Zusammenfassung Reveals how portrayals of peasants from the literature of the Golden Age of Virgilian Pastoral! who behave according to their social station! were increasingly replaced in the Middle Ages by portrayals that present the realistic peasant! whose outrageous behavior betrays his or her class while it threatens those who stand 'above'.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John B. Friedman, John Block Friedman
• Edition: Syracuse University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.05.2010
• EAN: 9780815632153
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3215-3
• Pages: 361
• Thèmes: Medieval Studies; Medieval Studies
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée