Women and the Medieval Epic

Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity

S. Poor, J. Schulman

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137066374
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism

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.

Índice

• 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