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Lorraine
Kochanske Stock.
The
Medieval Wild Man.
Palgrave,
due December 2005.
The
New Middle Ages series.
ISBN
1403966109.
Hardback.
156mm x
234mm.
256pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £45.00
This book traces the
trajectory of the appearance of and developing attitudes toward the
mythic social group known to Western medieval Europe as the 'Wild
People' through literary texts and visual images from the twelfth
through sixteenth centuries. This book argues against the prevailing
model of the development of the medieval construction of the Wild
People, which posits the Wild man's evolutionary 'progress' from the
negative 'homme sauvage' to the positive 'noble savage', a view that
was promoted by Richard Bernheimer and is still perpetuated today. This
author offers a new and different paradigm, which demonstrates Europe's
continuous ambivalence about the binary of 'nature' versus 'culture',
as expressed in their ongoing love/hate relationship with the Wild Man.
Contents:
Medieval Construtions of the Wild People: Monsters and/or Noble Savages?
Twelfth Century France: Where the Wild Things Are
Does Size Matter?: Wildness as Gigantism in Geoffrey of Monmouth's
Foundation Myth of Britain in History of the Kings of Britain and its
Translations by Wace and Lawman
Dangiers-ous Liasons Between the Wildness and Humanity in
Thirteenth-Century France: The Wild Man in the Roman de la Rose and Roman de Silence
Chaucer as Reluctant Fourteenth-Century Primitivist in Book of the Duchess and 'The Former
Age'
Goemagog is Back and He is Green and Gold: The Reprise of Geoffrey of
Monmouth's Gigantomachy in Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
Lords of the Wildwood: The Wild Man, the Green Man, and the Green
'Mayster-Herte' Robin Hood
Wild and Civilized from the Same Womb: Nature and Nurture in Valentine
and Orson
The Post-Medieval Life of the Wild Man in the New World
Conclusion
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