You Can Tell a Lord by His Servitors. An Attempt at Reading the Old Czech Tristram
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
You Can Tell a Lord by His Servitors. An Attempt at Reading the Old Czech Tristram
Original language description
The chapter provides a reading of the Old Czech Arthurian romance Tristram and Izalda in the perspective of purported lateness and peripheral nature of Czech courtly epic. It is shown that the conflict of moral duty and amorous desire underlying the story of Tristram’s adultery at the court of King Mark, Izalda’s husband, is presented mainly in light of its political and societal implications, unveiling basic dysfunctions of the king’s rule and his inability to establish a centre that would be able to exercise power in the periphery, being that Ireland (Izalda’s homeland) or a “Slovene country” that Mark tries to conquer in the romance’s first couplets. Thus, the original religious ending of the romance, in which all the tensions are finally appeased by establishing a monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary where Tristram and Izalda have been buried and Mark himself takes vows as a monk, can be read as a political and societal happy ending that brings peace to the periphery and firmly locates the whole story in the past.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Arthur en Europe à la fin du Moyen Âge. Approches comparées (1270–1530)
ISBN
978-2-406-09869-0
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
171-182
Number of pages of the book
296
Publisher name
Garnier
Place of publication
Paris
UT code for WoS chapter
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