Authority and gender in Medieval and Renaissance chronicles / edited by Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dresvina, Juliana.

Sparks, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority in literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; ADVISORY BOARD AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; HUSSIES, MATRONS, AND OTHERS IN CAROLINGIAN CHRONICLES; WOMEN IN THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE BEFORE AD 800; REPRESENTING AUTHORITY IN AN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHRONICLE; MONASTIC AUTHORITY, LANDSCAPE, AND PLACE IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF ORDERIC VITALIS; THE ENTHRONED KING IN LE ESTOIRE DE SEINT AEDWARDI LE REI; IMAGES OF QUEEN MELISENDE; PERSPICAX INGENIUM MIHI COLLATUM EST; THE LANGUAGE OF AUTHORITY?; CLERC, CHEVALIER, AUCTEUR; THE SHADOW OF DIDO; "WHAT YOU HEAR IS THE TRUTH"; "UNG DRESSOIR DE CINQ DEGREZ"

STAGING THE COURTQUESTIONABLE AUTHORITY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-4428-4

OCLC:

829713981