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Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230

Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230

Baldwin, John W.

Paperback

Series: Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230

French History

ISBN10: 0801869129
ISBN13: 9780801869129
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Mar 18 2002
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.16 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the clergy. Although these records may be satisfactory for studying the affairs of ecclesiastics, kings, and high barons, they are inadequate for assessing the major preoccupations of the aristocracy--living extravagantly, fighting, making love, entertaining, eating and dressing ostentatiously, and, generally, earning the disapproval of the clergy. In Aristocratic Life in Medieval France, the respected medieval scholar John Baldwin undertakes a study of this segment of society using, for the first time in nearly a century, the vernacular romances written exclusively for the amusement of aristocratic audiences.

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