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Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory

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Authors:
  1. Amanda J. Gerber

    1. Eastern New Mexico University, USA

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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Reframing the Frame Narrative

    • Amanda J. Gerber
    Pages 1-10

  3. Rethinking Ovid: The Commentary Tradition

    • Amanda J. Gerber
    Pages 11-50

  4. Communal Narrative: Boccaccio and the Historical Paraphrase Tradition

    • Amanda J. Gerber
    Pages 51-77

  5. Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

    • Amanda J. Gerber
    Pages 78-101

  6. Overlapping Mythologies: The Political Afterlives of Frame Narratives in Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Lydgate’s Fall of Princes

    • Amanda J. Gerber
    Pages 102-133

  7. Conclusion

    • Amanda J. Gerber
    Pages 134-139

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 140-163
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Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.

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  • Eastern New Mexico University, USA

    Amanda J. Gerber

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Amanda J. Gerber is Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico University, USA.

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