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Women and the Medieval Epic

Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity

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Editors:
  1. Sara S. Poor

    1. Princeton University, USA

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  2. Jana K. Schulman

    1. English Department, Western Michigan University, USA

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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sara S. Poor, Jana K. Schulman
    Pages 1-13

  3. Winning Women in Two Middle English Alexander Poems

    • Christine Chism
    Pages 15-39

  4. Surprisingly Historical Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle

    • Sarah-Grace Heller
    Pages 41-66

  5. Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories

    • Dick Davis
    Pages 67-90

  6. Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema De Mio Cid and Mocedades De Rodrigo

    • Thomas Caldin
    Pages 91-114

  7. What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries of the Classical Epic in Tenth-Century Ottonian Saxony

    • Kate Olson
    Pages 115-135

  8. All About Eve: Memory and Re-Collection in Junius 11’s Epic Poems Genesis and Christ and Satan

    • Lisabeth C. Buchelt
    Pages 137-158

  9. Ethical Acts and Annihilation: Feminine Heroics in Girart De Roussillon

    • William Burgwinkle
    Pages 159-182

  10. Caught Between Worlds: Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse

    • William Layher
    Pages 183-208

  11. “A Guest is in the Hall”: Women, Feasts, and Violence in Icelandic Epic

    • Jana K. Schulman
    Pages 209-233

  12. Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungenlied and Völsunga Saga

    • Kaaren Grimstad, Ray M. Wakefield
    Pages 235-252

  13. Performative Emotion and the Politics of Gender in the Nibelungenlied

    • Kathryn Starkey
    Pages 253-271

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 273-299
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These essays explore the place, function and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs and symbols in Medieval epics from Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany and Scandinavia. Usually believed to narrate the deeds of men at war, this book looks at the key roles often played by women and the impact of this on the history of gender.

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'...a welcome and imaginative treatment of a too-little investigated topic.' - Carolyne Larrington, Modern Language Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Princeton University, USA

    Sara S. Poor

  • English Department, Western Michigan University, USA

    Jana K. Schulman

About the editors

SARA S. POOR is Assistant Professor of Medieval German Literature at Princeton University, USA.

JANA K. SCHULMAN is Associate Professor of Old English and Old Norse at Western Michigan University, USA.

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