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Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative

Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 48

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521815649
ISBN13: 9780521815642
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 8 2002
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gestures and looks played an even more important role in public and private exchanges of medieval society, than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this compelling study, medievalist Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a range of narrative texts, including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the prose Lancelot, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, and Dante's Commedia.

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