Women and the Medieval Epic

Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity

AvS. Poor,J. Schulman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

This collection of essays explores the place, function, and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs, and cultural symbols in a variety of epics from the Middle Ages, including those of Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany, and Scandinavia. Medieval epics are traditionally believed to narrate the deeds of men at war, but this volume draws our attention not only to the key roles women often play in these narratives, but also to the larger implications they might have for the history of gender.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-06-05
Mått:140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt:532 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Middle Ages
Antal sidor:299
Upplaga:2007
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403966025

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Mer om författaren

SARA S. POOR is Assistant Professor of Medieval German Literature at Princeton University, USA. JANA K. SCHULMAN is Associate Professor of Old English and Old Norse at Western Michigan University, USA.

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'...a welcome and imaginative treatment of a too-little investigated topic.' - Carolyne Larrington, Modern Language Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; S.S.Poor & J.K.Schulman FEMALE HEROICS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER Ethical Acts and Annihilation: Feminine Heroics in Girart de Roussillon; W.Burgwinkle Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo; T.Caldin Caught Between Worlds: Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse; W.Layher GENDER AND GENRE Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle and Other Epic Works: From Historical Background to Anxiety Personified; S.G.Heller Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories; D.Davis Chaucer's Queer Epic; E.Salisbury Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungenlied and V÷lsunga Saga; K.Grimstad & R.M.Wakefield 'A Guest is in the Hall': Gendered Violence at Feasts in Icelandic Epic; J.K.Schulman AUTHORSHIP, PATRONAGE, AND THE GESTURES OF LORDSHIP What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries of the Classical Epic in Tenth-Century Ottonian Saxony; K.Olson Female Nobility, Patronage, and the Making of Castilian-Leonese Epic; M.Vaquero Beowulf's Queens and the Politics of Eleventh-Century England; H.Damico Brunhild's Smile: The Politics of Emotion in the Nibelungenlied; K.Starkey