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The romance of adultery [[electronic resource] ] : queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature / / Peggy McCracken



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Autore: McCracken Peggy Visualizza persona
Titolo: The romance of adultery [[electronic resource] ] : queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature / / Peggy McCracken Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 840.9/353
Soggetto topico: French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism
Romances - History and criticism
Adultery in literature
Queens in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The romance of adultery  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-0274-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463236203321
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Serie: Middle Ages Series