Treason : medieval and early modern adultery, betrayal, and shame / edited by Larissa Tracy.
Material type: TextSeries: Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 10.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 412 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- Treason -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
- Adultery -- Europe -- History
- Betrayal -- Europe -- History
- Shame -- Europe -- History
- Europe -- History -- 476-1492
- Europe -- History -- 1492-
- Europe -- Social conditions
- Europe -- Intellectual life
- Trahison -- Aspect social -- Europe -- Histoire
- Trahison (Morale) -- Europe -- Histoire
- Honte -- Europe -- Histoire
- Europe -- Histoire -- 476-1492
- Europe -- Histoire -- 1492-
- Europe -- Conditions sociales
- Europe -- Vie intellectuelle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology
- HISTORY / General
- Adultery
- Betrayal
- Intellectual life
- Shame
- Social conditions
- Europe
- HV6295.E85 T74 2019
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"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and consequences are rarely clear cut and are often subjective. Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime. Larissa Tracy artfully brings together younger critics as well as seasoned scholars in a compelling and topical conversation on treason"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The shameful business of betrayal and treason / Larissa Tracy -- Wiglaf's sword : the coming of the state / Frank Battaglia -- In sickness and in health : the Boethian narrative of the two Geralds of Brecon / Sarah J. Sprouse -- Treasonous and dishonorable conduct : the private dimension of treason and chivalric reform in late medieval Florence / Peter Sposato -- Royal punishment and reconciliation in Trastamara Castile / Samuel A. Claussen -- "A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain" : royal punishment of rebels, traitors, and political enemies in medieval Scotland, c. 1100-c. 1250 / Iain A. MacInnes -- Revolt in heaven : Lucifer's treason in Genesis B / Daniel Thomas -- Blessed betrayal : the opportunity of treachery in Anglo-Latin ecclesiastical texts / Sally Shockro -- Legal ramifications of ordeals and treason in Morant und Galie / Tina Boyer -- Religious identity, loyalty, and treason in the Cycle du Roi / Ana Grinberg -- Traitors respond : English Catholic polemical strategies against accusations of treason at the end of the sixteenth century / Freddy C. Dominguez -- Treason and deception in late medieval German romances and novels Konigin Sibille, Melusine, and Malagis / Albrecht Classen -- Treacherous women at King Arthur's court : punishment and shame / Inna Matyushina -- Treason and the feast in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- 'Tis fearful sleeping in a serpent's bed' : Arden of Faversham and the threat of the petty traitor / Dianne Berg -- The spatial configuration of shame in La Princesse de Cleves / Susan Small -- Conclusion: The shame game, from Guinevere to Cersei : adultery, treason, and betrayal / Larissa Tracy.
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