Chapter 12. The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research? 1
4. Chapter 1. Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian’s Design for Personal and Communal Devotion 193
5. Chapter 2. Women’s Place and Women’s Space in the Medieval Village 209
6. Chapter 3. “Gebrochen bluomen unde gras”: Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide 227
7. Chapter 4. Utopian Space in the Countryside: Love and Marriage between a Knight and a Peasant Girl in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich, Anonymous, “Dis ist von dem Heselin,” Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, and Late􀈬Medieval Popular Poetry 251
8. Chapter 5. Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart 281
9. Chapter 6. Moor, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi 295
10. Chapter 7. Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul 313
11. Chapter 8. Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland’s Piers Plowman 351
12. Chapter 9. Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d’Artois’s (1302–1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin 367
13. Chapter 10. Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space 389
14. Chapter 11. The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne 407
15. Chapter 12. The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés 433
16. Chapter 13. Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza (1325?) 451
17. Chapter 14. Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phébus’s Livre de la chasse (1387–1389) 505
18. Chapter 15. Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking􀈬Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism 529
19. Chapter 16. The Tame Wilderness of Princes: Images of Nature in Exemplars of Books of Hours and in the Livre du Coeur d’amour épris of King René of Anjou 561
20. Chapter 17. Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory 589
21. Chapter 18. Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy 607
22. Chapter 19. “Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg”: Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century 639
23. Chapter 20. Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside 673
24. Chapter 21. Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change 685
25. Chapter 22. Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late􀈬 Medieval French Comedies 703
26. Chapter 23. Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532) 729
27. Chapter 24. Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and Anti􀈬Puritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel 755
28. Chapter 25. The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the “loathed Country􀈬life” 795
29. Chapter 26. Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition 819
30. Chapter 27. “The free Enjoyment of the Earth”: Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform 865
31. List of Illustrations 891
32. Contributors 895
33. Index 905