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Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination: Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, cartea 125

Autor Emma O. Bérat
en Hardback – 30 ian 2024
Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Bérat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto the future, was crucial to medieval political, literary, and historical thought. While patrilineage often limited women to exceptional or passive roles, other genealogical forms that represent and promote women's claims are widespread in medieval texts. Female characters transmit power through book patronage and reading, enduring landmarks, and international travel, as well as childbearing and succession. These flexible – if messy – genealogies reflect the web of political, biological, and spiritual relations that frequently characterized elite women's lives. Examining hagiography, chronicles, genealogical rolls, and French, English, and Latin romances, as well as associated codices and images, Bérat highlights the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009434751
ISBN-10: 1009434756
Pagini: 300
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. The book as bloodline: the life of Queen Margaret of Scotland; 2. Records on the landscape: landmarks in Audree, Osith, and Modwenne; 3. Tracing mobility: royal genealogical diagrams and Trevet's Les Cronicles; 4. Mothers and messengers: violent transmission in Athelston; Conclusion: Matrilineal legacies.

Descriere

Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.