The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Litera

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"A provocative study of an intriguing subject... The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."-Romance Philology

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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.

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By Peggy McCracken

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"An original and invaluable contribution to our understanding of gender/power relations in the Middle Ages, medieval apprehensions and expectations of powerful women, and the ways in which presumably male writers imagined such women's behavior."--John Carmi Parsons "A provocative study of an intriguing subject... The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."--Romance Philology

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"A provocative study of an intriguing subject. . . . The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."—Romance Philology

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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.

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"A provocative study of an intriguing subject. . . . The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."-- Romance Philology

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"A provocative study of an intriguing subject. . . . The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."-- Romance Philology

Details ISBN0812234324 Author Peggy McCracken Short Title ROMANCE OF ADULTERY Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press Language English ISBN-10 0812234324 ISBN-13 9780812234329 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 1998 Pages 192 Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press Subtitle Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780812234329 UK Release Date 1998-03-29 AU Release Date 1998-03-29 NZ Release Date 1998-03-29 US Release Date 1998-03-29 Series The Middle Ages Series Publication Date 1998-03-29 Alternative 9780812202748 DEWEY 840.9353 Illustrations 6 illus. Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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