Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket’s martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II’s knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket’s father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the place and function of conversion and mission in The Man of Law’s Tale, juxtaposing the tale with the legend about Becket’s mother to assess the power (or lack thereof) of baptism in late medieval English works. This new comparative study thus provides productive insights into the complexity of the emergence of the concept of race in medieval English culture and literature.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2023
Copyrightjahr
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-450-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-104-3
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Medieval Media and Culture
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
116
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Kein Zugriff
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kein Zugriff
Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 12
Chapter 1 ANXIETIES OF CONVERSION IN HIGHAND LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Kein Zugriff Seiten 13 - 34
Chapter 2 THOMAS BECKET’S MOTHER Kein Zugriff Seiten 35 - 60
Chapter 3 THE BECKET LEGEND, THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE, AND CONVERSION Kein Zugriff Seiten 61 - 76
Chapter 4 THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE IN CONTEXT Kein Zugriff Seiten 77 - 90
