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Oaths, Vows and Promises in the First Part of the French Prose Lancelot Romance
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Oaths, Vows and Promises in the First Part of the French Prose Lancelot Romance Paperback - 1993

by Lisa Jefferson


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This book examines the narrative use made of oaths, vows and promises in a thirteenth-century work of fictional literature, reviewing the textual prominence accorded them by the writer in the light of legal texts of the Middle Ages that deal with the same subject. Medieval society had to deal with highly complex problems that arose out of the central importance accorded the given word. Jurists wrestled with the problems in an attempt to solve them; the writer of a work of narrative fiction can explore such problems in terms of human drama. The writer of the prose "Lancelot" was clearly aware of the legal debate, and he used both the characters and plot of his fictional text to construct narrative sequences that allowed him to depict the moral and psychological perplexities that faced both society and individuals over these matters.

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  • Title Oaths, Vows and Promises in the First Part of the French Prose Lancelot Romance
  • Author Lisa Jefferson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 267
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
  • Date 1993-02
  • ISBN 9783906750620 / 3906750620
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Knights and knighthood in literature, Oaths in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94107202
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.1

About the author

The Author: Lisa Jefferson graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, and then, after a number of years spent working in other fields, returned to academic life and to Linacre College, Oxford, and from there she obtained a D. Phil. in 1991. She has published a number of articles in leading journals, and is now continuing with further research into the interrelationships between law and literature in the Middle Ages.
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Bern, Etc.: Peter Lang, 1993. 267p., original stiff printed wrappers (European University studies. Series XIII: French language and literature, 181).
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