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Fahey, Amy Elizabeth.

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Heralds and heraldry in English literature, c. 1350--1600.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Heralds and heraldry in English literature, c. 1350--1600./
作者:	Fahey, Amy Elizabeth.
面頁冊數:	252 p.
附註:	Adviser: Joseph Loewenstein.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-02A.
標題:	History, Medieval. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3207210
ISBN:	9780542557804

Heralds and heraldry in English literature, c. 1350--1600.
Fahey, Amy Elizabeth.

Heralds and heraldry in English literature, c. 1350--1600. - 252 p.

Adviser: Joseph Loewenstein.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 2005.

During the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, heraldry operated as an elaborate system of social organization and visual commemoration that in many ways can be considered both analogous and yet oppositional to literary production. Similarly, the efforts of medieval heralds, whether serving as armorial authorities, tournament officials, messengers, or court chroniclers, frequently overlapped with those of medieval authors, particularly court poets. The aim of this dissertation is to examine the role of heraldic discourse and a variety of herald-figures in late medieval literature, concentrating attention on the works of three medieval English writers: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and John Skelton. Chaucer's House of Fame, for instance, invites a comparison between the poet's endeavors and those activities---crying "riche folks laudes," circulating "tydinges," developing elaborate systems of display for purposes of patronage or self-promotion---engaged in by heralds. Through the figure of the messenger, Chaucer also explores the reliability of transmission and interpretation, as well as the poet's position as an agent of courtly satisfaction, while in The Knight's Tale, heraldic representation functions as a means of both narrative and political control. Malory's Morte Darthur explores the social and political instability of a sign-system premised on both distinction and kinship, articulating tensions present in both contemporary chivalric manuals and in late fifteenth-century English society. Malory's mythologized Arthurian landscape, particularly in the tales of Balin, Sir Gareth of Orkney, and The Fair Maid of Astolat, is frequently animated by a tension between a heraldic signification premised on association and the desire to escape such signification through armorial manipulation. Like Chaucer, John Skelton also invites comparison between his poetic activities and those of the herald; accused by his detractors of attempting to "control the cognisaunce of noble men," Skelton vacillates between blazon and rumor, ultimately presenting his own professional recognition as a mirror of heraldic creation. The attitudes of late medieval writers toward the practice and practitioners of heraldry thus reveal complex concerns about literary and political authority, the public status of the poet, and the stability of both visual and written discourses of fame and reputation.

ISBN: 9780542557804Subjects--Topical Terms:

925067
History, Medieval.

Heralds and heraldry in English literature, c. 1350--1600.
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