Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance

D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.

List of contents

Introduction: Part I. The Role of Women: Introduction; 1. Women in the Middle Ages; 2. Feminisation in the twelfth century; Part II. Marriage and Love: Introduction; 3. Erec; 4. Tristan; 5. Parzival; Conclusion.

About the author

D. H. Green is Professor Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.

Summary

D. H. Green challenges the prevailing view of the Middle Ages as a static period in which attitudes to women were uniformly negative. Focusing on the great German romances Erec, Tristan and Parzival he explores strategies used by vernacular writers to debate and challenge the undoubted antifeminism of the day.

Product details

• Authors: D. H. Green, D. H. (Trinity College Green
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107646292
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64629-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies