McDonald / Ormrod Rites of Passage

Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-84615-281-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

A wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as they affected individuals at all points of their lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald, Nicola F

Ormrod, W Mark

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kay, H S

Phillips, Helen

Gilbert, Jane

Burden, Joel

Rubin, Miri

Cullum, Pat H

Wells, Sharon

Ormrod, W Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rites of Passage - Miri Rubin
Re-writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II - Joel Burden
Coming to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth-Century England - W. Mark Ormrod
Boy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy - P H Cullum
Manners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages - Sharon Wells
Rites of Passage in French and English Romances - Helen Phillips
Becoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' - Jane Gilbert
John Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis -
`Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux - H S Kay

Über Autor(innen)

Ormrod W Mark:
The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.Gilbert Jane:
JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK.Ormrod W Mark:
The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.