Pleij Dreaming of Cockaigne

Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-52921-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 544 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pleij, Herman

Weitere Mitwirkende

Webb, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Part 1. The Forfeiture of Happiness: The Beginning
1. Paradise Lost
2. Contours of a Book
3. The Power of Literature
Part 2. Texts as Maps
4. Rhyming Texts L and B, Prose Text G
5. The Two Rhyming Texts on the Land of Cockaigne
6. Recitation and Writing
7. Oral Structures in Writing
8. The Existing Potential
9. The Prose Text on Luilekkerland
Part 3. Eating to Forget
10. Eating Habits
11. Hunger and Scarcity
12. The Topos of Hunger
13. The Intoxicating Effect of Fasting
14. Gorging in Self-Defense
15. Food in Motion
16. Literary Refreshment
Part 4. Paradise Refurbished
17. The Land of Cockaigne as Paradise
18. Never Say Die
19. Heavenly Rewards
20. Other Paradises
21. Lovely Places, Golden Ages
22. Wonder Gardens and Pleasure Parks
23. Dreams of Immortality
Part 5. The Imagination Journeys Forth
24. Geographical Musings
25. Real Dreamworlds
26. Wonders of East and West
27. Fanciful Destinations
28. Virtual Dreamlands
Part 6. Heretical Excesses
29. The Thousand-Year Reign of Peace and Prosperity
30. Heresies of the Free Spirit
31. Sex Adam-and-Eve Style
32. Low-Country Heterodoxy
Part 7. Learning as a Matter of Survival
33. Didactic Differences
34. Topsy-Turvy Worlds
35. Hard Times
36. Moderation, Ambition, and Decorum
37. Lessons in Pragmatism
Part 8. Dreaming of Cockaigne: The End
38. The Name Cockaigne
39. A Depreciated Cultural Asset
40. From Countryside to Town
41. The Necessity of Fiction
Appendixes
1. Middle Dutch Rhyming Texts on Cockaigne
2. Dutch Prose Text of 1546 on Luilekkerland
3. Dutch Poems Appearing in English Translation
Sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Herman Pleij lectures on Dutch historical literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of the Dutch best-seller Het Gilde van de Blauwe Schuit(The guild of the blue barge), an account of the rituals surrounding the celebration of Carnival in the Middle Ages, and the critically acclaimed book De sneeuwpoppen van 1511(The snowmen of 1511), a lively study of the rise of urban culture and middle-class morality in the southern Netherlands of the late Middle Ages.