Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance

A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.

List of contents

Introduction
Prophecy as Social Influence: Cassandra, Anne Neville, and the Corpus Christi Manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde
The Science of Female Power in John Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes
A Woman's 'Crafte': Sexual and Chivalric Patronage in Partonope of Blois
Creative Revisions: Competing Figures of the Patroness in Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Amy N. Vines

Product details

• Authors: Amy N Vines, Amy N. Vines
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2011
• EAN: 9781843842750
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-275-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance; Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval