{"product_id":"troubling-arthurian-histories-court-culture-performance-and-scandal-in-chretien-de-troyess-erec-et-enide-9783039113859","title":"Troubling Arthurian Histories: Court Culture, Performance and Scandal in Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Noël Peacock | James Simpson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chrétien de Troyes's \u003ci\u003eErec et Enide\u003c\/i\u003e as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates \u003ci\u003eErec et Enide\u003c\/i\u003e, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the tale have not uncommonly presented Chrétien's poem as a decorous 'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and \u003ci\u003efin'amors\u003c\/i\u003e, between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by questions and skeletons from various closets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47813570723991,"sku":"9783039113859","price":9272.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783039113859.webp?v=1778336898","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/troubling-arthurian-histories-court-culture-performance-and-scandal-in-chretien-de-troyess-erec-et-enide-9783039113859","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}