Jews reading arthurian romances from the Middle Ages: on the reception of Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain, the knight of the lion, based on manuscript JTS Rab. 1164
Evidence of Jewish readerships for French literature in the Middle Ages, particularly romances, has been accumulating. This article focuses on a recently discovered tale from Italy, copied in Hebrew in MS JTS Rab. 1164, as a prism through which to explore the cultural interactions between Jewish and...
| Άλλοι τίτλοι: | Research Article |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2018]
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AJS review
Έτος: 2018, Τόμος: 42, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 381-401 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
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/ Αρθουριακά κείμενα
/ Chrétien, de Troyes 1150-1190, Yvain
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/ Ιταλία (μοτίβο)
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| Σύνοψη: | Evidence of Jewish readerships for French literature in the Middle Ages, particularly romances, has been accumulating. This article focuses on a recently discovered tale from Italy, copied in Hebrew in MS JTS Rab. 1164, as a prism through which to explore the cultural interactions between Jewish and Christian society in Italy of the early Renaissance. I first analyze the Jewish tale, which I posit has an affinity with the Arthurian romance Yvain, The Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes, and expound on the thematic and poetic links between the two stories. I then examine Yvain’s reception in Italy as part of a broader phenomenon involving the acceptance, copying, adaptation, and assimilation of French romances in Italy into vernacular Italian. Finally, I present the story and the factors that played a role in its reception in the context of Italian Jewish society. The entirety of the review offers an overall portrait of the story's reception as a unique socioliterary phenomenon shared by Jews and non-Jews alike in Italy in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009418000454 |