The Romance of Adultery

Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature

By:

Peggy McCracken

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Hardback

Series:

The Middle Ages Series

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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.

Author Biography:

By Peggy McCracken

Release date Australia

March 29th, 1998

Author

Peggy McCracken

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

6 illus.

Pages

192

Series

The Middle Ages Series

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780812234329

Product ID

2081559

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