Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Antal sidor
246
Utgivningsdatum
2024-03-21
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 16 mm
Vikt
499 g
ISBN
9781009434751

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination

Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2024-03-21
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Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Bérat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto the future, was crucial to medieval political, literary, and historical thought. While patrilineage often limited women to exceptional or passive roles, other genealogical forms that represent and promote women's claims are widespread in medieval texts. Female characters transmit power through book patronage and reading, enduring landmarks, and international travel, as well as childbearing and succession. These flexible - if messy - genealogies reflect the web of political, biological, and spiritual relations that frequently characterized elite women's lives. Examining hagiography, chronicles, genealogical rolls, and French, English, and Latin romances, as well as associated codices and images, Bérat highlights the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.

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Emma O. Bérat is an independent scholar living and working in Artigat, France. She is co-editor of Relations of Power: Women's Networks in the Middle Ages (2021), and has written extensively on women's historiography, literary patronage, and cultural movement.