"Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages"--
Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, across medieval Europe. Tracing its development from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, chapters examine Icelandic sagas, Old Spanish heroic epic poetry, courtly romances, early modern French and German prose novels, and late medieval short verse and prose narratives as well as the work of medieval critics such as John of Salisbury and Marsilius of Padua. Albrecht Classen explores how the writers used their craft creatively and covertly to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
Introduction
Chapter One: The Medieval King, Monarchy, the Court, and
Philosophical-Political Reflections. Unexpected Perspectives Toward a
Critical Discourse: Political Reflections
Chapter Two: Waltharius: An Honest Warrior Fights Against an Evil King: Early
Medieval Criticism of a Ruler
Chapter Three: The Neglectful, Ineffectual, Pathetic, and Useless King:
Heinrich der Glīchezāres Reinhart Fuchs and the Criticism of a Ruler. The
Story of a Complete Failure
Chapter Four: Herzog Ernst and the Cruel Emperor: Criticism of an Unhinged
Ruler
Chapter Five: Disappointment about the Fictional King: Criticism of the Royal
Ruler in Marie de Frances Lais
Chapter Six: A Tyrant King in the Viking World: Egils Saga and Other Epic
Poems
Chapter Seven: The Idealized King Proves to be a Miserable Creature:
Political Criticism in the Old French Huon de Bordeaux
Chapter Eight: The Public Discussion of the King in Boccaccios Decameron
Sacrosanct or Vile? The Banalization of Kingship in the Late Middle Ages
Chapter Nine: A Weak Husband, an Evil King, and a Miserable Character: The
Downfall of Charlemagne in Late Medieval Prose Novels by Countess Elisabeth
of Nassau-Saarbrücken and Others.
Königin Sibille and the Anonymous Malagis With an Interlude Focused on the
Nibelungenlied
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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