The medieval risk-reward society : courts, adventure, and love in the European Middle Ages / Will Hasty.

• The cultural action ; Toward a cultural game theory ; The new medieval move ; A race of four cities: Troy, Jericho, Rome, and Jerusalem -- The medieval self as bankroll ; The city of God: otherness as a global parameter of action ; The city of God: sameness as a global parameter of action loss, reiteration, growth ; The new medieval move exemplified -- Rules of the house ; Courtly representation as aristocratic competition ; Investitures: a diachronic view of the political action -- The poetic action ; Wars, tournaments, verses: the place of poetry at court ; Benchmarks of performance ; The vernacular as poetic resource ; Stars in competition -- Adventure as a cultural wager ; Dynamics of adventure ; Highlights from Chretien de Troyes's Erec et Enide ; Highlights from Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Love as a cultural wager ; Dynamics of love ; Highlights from Marie de France's Lanval ; Highlights from Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan -- The modern self in play ; The global as individual ; Reformation moves ; Enlightenment moves ; A gilded-age Connecticut Yankee adventures for high stakes ; Emancipation, totalitarianism, and the (post)modern action.

Ämnesord

Medeltidslitteratur  (sao)

Kärlek i litteraturen  (sao)

Love in literature.  (LCSH)

Courts and courtiers.  (LCSH)

Aristocracy (Social class)  (LCSH)

Literature, Medieval  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Courtly love  -- History. (LCSH)

Aristocracy (Social class)  (fast)

Courtly love.  (fast)

Courts and courtiers.  (fast)

Literature, Medieval.  (fast)

Love in literature.  (fast)

Hovliv  -- historia (sao)

Aristokrati  -- historia (sao)

Love in literature  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PN671 (LCC)

809/.02 (DDC)