Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
ShareThis
Javascript must be enabled to continue!

John Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick and Fifteenth-Century Emotions

View through CrossRef
Abstract The article argues that John Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick is an innovative version of the Guy of Warwick legend as it emphasizes the feelings of its characters. Furthermore, it also openly intends to evoke emotions in its audience. The poem requires to be read in light of the newly emerged field of the history of medieval emotions since the social context of Lydgate’s Guy is more visible from this perspective. The poem offers an admixture of religious and secular feelings. As a result, the final scenes of bidding farewell to Guy by Felice and by the community have to be seen as related both to Guy as a hero and as a saint.
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Title: John Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick and Fifteenth-Century Emotions
Description:
Abstract The article argues that John Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick is an innovative version of the Guy of Warwick legend as it emphasizes the feelings of its characters.
Furthermore, it also openly intends to evoke emotions in its audience.
The poem requires to be read in light of the newly emerged field of the history of medieval emotions since the social context of Lydgate’s Guy is more visible from this perspective.
The poem offers an admixture of religious and secular feelings.
As a result, the final scenes of bidding farewell to Guy by Felice and by the community have to be seen as related both to Guy as a hero and as a saint.

Related Results

John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose and translations many of the most serious political questions of his da...
The Sociology of Emotions
The Sociology of Emotions
The Sociology of Emotions: Feminist, Cultural and Sociological Perspectives brings together conceptual and theoretical analysis drawing on feminist, cultural and sociological persp...
Inner Workings: John Lydgate's Kalendare at the Nexus of Time, Craft, and Devotion
Inner Workings: John Lydgate's Kalendare at the Nexus of Time, Craft, and Devotion
Abstract: This article proposes that fifteenth-century English poet John Lydgate transforms the medieval tradition of calendrical verse from a mnemonic aid to a site for readers to...
Proto-Humanist Greek
Proto-Humanist Greek
Abstract Focusing on the works of John Lydgate (c.1370–1449/50?), this chapter shows that the translation of Ancient Greek into English has roots at least as far bac...
تصنيف العواطف في كلمات أغاني نانسي عجرم
تصنيف العواطف في كلمات أغاني نانسي عجرم
Emotions are feelings that have a significant impact on behavior, so emotions are an important aspect of human life. Humans have many ways to express the emotions they feel. For ex...
Persons and Their Private Personas: Living with Yourself
Persons and Their Private Personas: Living with Yourself
Public life is usually understood to be whatever we do or say in our formal and professional relationships. At the workplace, at the doctor’s office or at the café, we need to make...
The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment
The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment
In the legal histories of Reconstruction, the Fifteenth Amendment is usually an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth Amendment. This oversight is perplexing: the Fifteenth Amend...
Emotions and Networked Learning
Emotions and Networked Learning
Emotions in networked learning have been underresearched despite their importance. The present research is one of the first few attempts to better understand adult learners’ emotio...

Back to Top