Women''s Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

"Emma O. Bâerat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness"--

About the author

Emma O. Bérat is an independent scholar living and working in Artigat, France. She is co-editor of Relations of Power: Women's Networks in the Middle Ages (2021), and has written extensively on women's historiography, literary patronage, and cultural movement.

Summary

Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.

Foreword

Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.

Product details

• Authors: Emma O. Berat, Emma O. Bérat
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 29.02.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9781009434751
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943475-1
• Pages: 246
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Gender studies: women, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents, Relating to non-stereotypical gender roles