03381nam 2200685Ia 450 991046323620332120200520144314.00-8122-0274-010.9783/9780812202748(CKB)2670000000418225(EBL)3442099(SSID)ssj0001053309(PQKBManifestationID)11598084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053309(PQKBWorkID)11085001(PQKB)10243610(MiAaPQ)EBC3442099(OCoLC)859160788(MdBmJHUP)muse26833(DE-B1597)449130(OCoLC)979954184(DE-B1597)9780812202748(Au-PeEL)EBL3442099(CaPaEBR)ebr10748488(OCoLC)932312858(EXLCZ)99267000000041822519971110d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe romance of adultery[electronic resource] queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature /Peggy McCrackenPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc19981 online resource (192 p.)The Middle Ages seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-3432-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Defining Queenship in Medieval Europe -- 1. Royal Succession and the Queen's Two Bodies -- 2. Royal Sovereignty and the Test of the Queen's Body -- 3. Rumors, Rivalries, and the Queen's Secret Adultery -- 4. Adultery, Illegitimacy, and Royal Maternity -- 5. Seduction, Maternity, and Royal Authority -- Conclusion: Gendering Sovereignty in Medieval France -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, McCracken explores the ways adultery is appropriated into the political structure of romance. McCracken examines the symbolic meanings and uses of the queen's body in both romance and the historical institutions of monarchy and points toward the ways medieval romance contributed to the evolving definition of royal sovereignty as exclusively male.Middle Ages SeriesFrench literatureTo 1500History and criticismRomancesHistory and criticismAdultery in literatureQueens in literatureElectronic books.French literatureHistory and criticism.RomancesHistory and criticism.Adultery in literature.Queens in literature.840.9/353McCracken Peggy883022MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463236203321The romance of adultery2458957UNINA