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Women and the Medieval Epic
Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity
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These essays explore the place, function and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs and symbols in Medieval epics from Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany and Scandinavia. Usually believed to narrate the deeds of men at war, this book looks at the key roles often played by women and the impact of this on the history of gender.
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Yes, you can access Women and the Medieval Epic by S. Poor,J. Schulman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Winning Women in Two Middle English Alexander Poems
- 2 Surprisingly Historical Women in the Old French Cmsade Cycle
- 3 Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories
- 4 Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema De Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo
- 5 What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries of the Classical Epic in Tenth-Century Ottonian Saxony
- 6 All About Eve: Memory and Re-Collection in Junius 11 's Epic Poems Genesis and Christ and Satan
- 7 Ethical Acts and Annihilation: Feminine Heroics in Girart de Roussillon
- 8 Caught between Worlds: Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse
- 9 "A Guest is in the Hall": Women, Feasts, and Violence in Icelandic Epic
- 10 Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungcnlied and Viilsunga Saga
- 11 Perfonnative Emotion and the Politics of Gender in the Nibelungenlied
- Bibliography
- Index