Beasts of love : Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour and A woman's response

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Beasts of love : Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour and A woman's response

Title remainder

Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour and A woman's response

Statement of responsibility

Jeanette Beer

Creator

• Beer, Jeanette M. A

Author

• Beer, Jeanette M. A

Subject

• Bestiaire d'amour (Richard, de Fournival)
• Courtly love in literature
• Courtly love in literature
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Europa
• Hoofse liefde
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
• Literatur
• Richard (de Fournival)
• Richard, de Fournival, active 1246-1260
• Höfische Minne
• Bestiaire d'Amours (Richard de Fournival)

Language

eng

Summary

• "The first gendered prose debate in a European vernacular, Le Bestiaire d'amour and the subsequent Response constitute a clash of opposites: a medieval chancellor's erotic bestiary to a woman is countered by the woman's passionate protest against the cleric's misogynistic presuppositions. Jeanette Beer presents a close, linear reading of the two literary texts, examining the context that led to the love-bestiary's production in the thirteenth century (especially an influential version of the Physiologus by Pierre de Beauvais), the suggestiveness of the animal symbolism, and the aftermath of the debate."
• "In her exploration of Le Bestiaire d'amour and the Response, Beer analyses the disparity of their sexual, philosophical, and theological orientations, and considers, animal by animal, this gendered duelling of the two bestiaries, the symbolism of the one calqued upon the symbolism of the other. Largely neglected for seven hundred years, Le Bestiaire d'amour and Response address issues that are universally relevant: male and female expectations in love, sexual dominance, sexual exploitation, and female strategies for self-preservation in a society where women were powerless and vulnerable."--Jacket

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

CaOONL

Dewey number

848/.1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ1461.F64

LC item number

B43 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography