Gender And History In Medieval English Romance And Chronicle
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Gender And History In Medieval English Romance And Chronicle
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Author : Laura D. Barefield
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Gender And History In Medieval English Romance And Chronicle written by Laura D. Barefield and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This reading of canonical texts of medieval English literature - Sir Gawain and the Green Night and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - alongside Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and other Anglo-Norman and English chronicles offers a broader context for reading the romance narratives and re-evaluates romance conventions in light of the genealogical priorities of these chronicles. By arguing that maternity is featured as a position of power, Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle adds to our understanding of women and sovereignty, and the ways gender and authority were rhetorically linked to medieval texts.
Reproducing The Past
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Author : Laura D. Barefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Reproducing The Past written by Laura D. Barefield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with English literature categories.
Readings In Medieval English Romance
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Author : Carol M. Meale
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1994
Readings In Medieval English Romance written by Carol M. Meale and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Collections categories.
Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.
Marking Maternity In Middle English Romance
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Author : A. Florschuetz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-20
Marking Maternity In Middle English Romance written by A. Florschuetz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Women S Genealogies In The Medieval Literary Imagination
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Author : Emma O. Bérat
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Women S Genealogies In The Medieval Literary Imagination written by Emma O. Bérat and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.
Empire Of Magic
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Author : Geraldine Heng
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-13
Empire Of Magic written by Geraldine Heng and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cultural genre we call romance, as well as the King Arthur legend. Geraldine Heng argues that romance arose in the twelfth century as a cultural response to the trauma and horror of taboo acts—in particular the cannibalism committed by crusaders on the bodies of Muslim enemies in Syria during the First Crusade. From such encounters with the East, Heng suggests, sprang the fantastical episodes featuring King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle The History of the Kings of England, a work where history and fantasy collide and merge, each into the other, inventing crucial new examples and models for romances to come. After locating the rise of romance and Arthurian legend in the contact zones of East and West, Heng demonstrates the adaptability of romance and its key role in the genesis of an English national identity. Discussing Jews, women, children, and sexuality in works like the romance of Richard Lionheart, stories of the saintly Constance, Arthurian chivralic literature, the legend of Prester John, and travel narratives, Heng shows how fantasy enabled audiences to work through issues of communal identity, race, color, class and alternative sexualities in socially sanctioned and safe modes of cultural discussion in which pleasure, not anxiety, was paramount. Romance also engaged with the threat of modernity in the late medieval period, as economic, social, and technological transformations occurred and awareness grew of a vastly enlarged world beyond Europe, one encompassing India, China, and Africa. Finally, Heng posits, romance locates England and Europe within an empire of magic and knowledge that surveys the world and makes it intelligible—usable—for the future. Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance—historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others—to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldly controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a dramatic restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today.
Anglo Saxon Saints Lives As History Writing In Late Medieval England
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Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2015
Anglo Saxon Saints Lives As History Writing In Late Medieval England written by Cynthia Turner Camp and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual "golden age" and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England's history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics. Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
Looking Westward
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Author : Ordelle G. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2009
Looking Westward written by Ordelle G. Hill and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the perspective of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March.
The Last Plantagenet Consorts
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Author : Kavita Mudan Finn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-06-08
The Last Plantagenet Consorts written by Kavita Mudan Finn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-08 with Social Science categories.
An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Marion Zimmer Bradley written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre. An A to Z arrangement includes coverage of novels (The Catch Trap, Survey Ship, The Fall of Atlantis, The Firebrand, The Forest House and The Mists of Avalon), the graphic narrative Warrior Woman, the Lythande novella The Gratitude of Kings, and, from the Darkover series, The Shattered Chain, The Sword of Aldones and Traitor's Sun. Separate entries on dominant themes--rape, divination, religion, violence, womanhood, adaptation and dreams--comb stories and longer works for the author's insights about the motivation of institutions that oppress marginalized groups, especially women.