{"product_id":"stag-of-love-marcelle-thibaux-9780801479694","title":"Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. \u003ci\u003eThe Stag of Love\u003c\/i\u003e explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing legacies. While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression in the literature of love. As Marcelle Thi饕aux demonstrates, the hunt's disciplined violence represented sexual desire, along with strategies and arts for getting love, the joys of love, and love's elevating mystique. The genre gave rise to a lavish imagery of footprints and tracking, arrows, nets, dogs and leashes, wounds, dismemberment and blood, that persisted to Shakespeare's day.Thi饕aux opens with an account of a medieval chase and its ceremonies. She introduces hunt manuals that defined and gentrified the sport, in stages from the party's departure to the ferocity of the struggle to the animal's death. These stages adapted readily to narrative structures in the love chase, showing pursuit, confrontation with the beloved, and consummation. In English literature Thi饕aux considers \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, Aefric's \u003ci\u003eLife of St. Eustace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, and Chaucer. She discusses \u003ci\u003eAucassin and Nicolete\u003c\/i\u003e, Chr騁ien de Troyes' \u003ci\u003eErec\u003c\/i\u003e, Gottfried von Strassburg's \u003ci\u003eTristan\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNibelungenlied\u003c\/i\u003e, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's works. The study ends with a scrutiny of newly recovered or little-known narratives of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1974 and now issued in paperback for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Stag of Love\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life a theme of perennial interest to medievalists, and to all readers intrigued by the imaginative treatment of love in the Western world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcelle Thi饕aux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080147969X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801479694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Marcelle Thi饕aux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059733590271,"sku":"9780801479694","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c5aa7fa-1cc9-44e4-981d-6a66d73f2cdb.jpg?v=1685060008","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stag-of-love-marcelle-thibaux-9780801479694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}