Reviews for Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages

The average rating for Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-30 00:00:00 Kaye Wade Bumke's Courtly Culture was one of the most groundbreaking studies of medieval literature and culture to be published in the last century. In this study Bumke explores the reality of courtly ideals in the real world situation against the courtly world that is presented in medieval German courtly literature. The work traces the development of courtly culture in France, its transmission into Germany and the appliance of the concept in the classical and post classical romances and epics that flourished in the thirteenth century German speaking territories. Essential reading for anyone interested in German Arthurian literature and the German epic poems.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-07 00:00:00 Kellen Conway The most helpful aspect of the text is the extracts and quotations from period texts - beauty literature such as The Seafarer or the riddles as examined in the last chapter really broke up the more historic/contextual content of the book, helping the text move forwards and stay relevant to the topic of Old English Literature.