{"product_id":"stag-of-love-the-chase-in-medieval-literature-paperback","title":"Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcelle Thiébaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. \u003ci\u003eThe Stag of Love\u003c\/i\u003e explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing legacies. While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression in the literature of love. As Marcelle Thiébaux demonstrates, the hunt's disciplined violence represented sexual desire, along with strategies and arts for getting love, the joys of love, and love's elevating mystique. The genre gave rise to a lavish imagery of footprints and tracking, arrows, nets, dogs and leashes, wounds, dismemberment and blood, that persisted to Shakespeare's day.Thiébaux opens with an account of a medieval chase and its ceremonies. She introduces hunt manuals that defined and gentrified the sport, in stages from the party's departure to the ferocity of the struggle to the animal's death. These stages adapted readily to narrative structures in the love chase, showing pursuit, confrontation with the beloved, and consummation. In English literature Thiébaux considers \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, Aefric's \u003ci\u003eLife of St. Eustace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, and Chaucer. She discusses \u003ci\u003eAucassin and Nicolete\u003c\/i\u003e, Chrétien de Troyes' \u003ci\u003eErec\u003c\/i\u003e, Gottfried von Strassburg's \u003ci\u003eTristan\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNibelungenlied\u003c\/i\u003e, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's works. The study ends with a scrutiny of newly recovered or little-known narratives of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1974 and now issued in paperback for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Stag of Love\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life a theme of perennial interest to medievalists, and to all readers intrigued by the imaginative treatment of love in the Western world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcelle Thiébaux is the editor and translator of Dhuoda, \u003ci\u003eHandbook for Her Warrior Son: Liber Manualis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Writings of Medieval Women: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written about Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins and about Princess Saint Margaret of Hungary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 03, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702574772531,"sku":"9780801479694","price":77.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/S0RpT2ZaWWxtM3A4TGd3Zlk4Ui9FUT09.webp?v=1763312369","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/stag-of-love-the-chase-in-medieval-literature-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}