The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity - Couverture souple

Burrows, Daron

 
9783039100729: The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity
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ISBN 10 : 3039100726 ISBN 13 : 9783039100729
Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2005

Synopsis

The Old French fabliaux may be notorious for their bawdy content, but few aspects of these medieval comic narratives are as astonishing as their depiction of the parish priest, whose fiscal and sexual transgressions are on occasion so enormous that lay protagonists are driven to inflict graphic punishments ranging from public exposure and communal beating to castration and murder. In this study, Burrows draws on social psychological research into the cognitive and socio-motivational components of stereotyping to explore the forces underlying the creation and development of the fabliau priest. Through an assessment of the constituent elements of the figure against a background of a range of literary and historical sources, Burrows demonstrates that the literary figure is the product of the specific socio-historical context of contemporaneous changes in relationships between Church and laity in which anticlerical stereotyping, in a manner comparable to other instances of outgroup derogation, can be attributed to a quest for positive social identity and ingroup solidarity on the part of an inscribed lay audience.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Daron Burrows completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Trinity College, Oxford, before taking up his current post as Lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. His research centres on medieval French literature, with a particular emphasis on comic and satirical poetry, text editing, and manuscript studies.

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Éditeur
Verlag Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3039100726
ISBN 13 
9783039100729
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
265
Coordonnées du fabricant
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com

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Berlin
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Allemagne

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9780820468884: The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity

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ISBN 10 :  0820468886 ISBN 13 :  9780820468884
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing, 2005
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