The romance of adultery : queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature

The romance of adultery : queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature / Peggy McCracken.

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 Fran...

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Main Author: McCracken, Peggy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1998.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
To 1500
French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Romances > History and criticism.
Adultery in literature.
Queens in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Adultery in literature
French literature
Queens in literature
Romances
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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