Authority and gender in Medieval and Renaissance chronicles /

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This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dresvina, Juliana (Editor ), Sparks, Nicholas A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Temas:
1450-1600
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Authority in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Autorité dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
European literature > Renaissance.
Literature, Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks
  • Hussies, matrons, and others in Carolingian chronicles / Jinty Nelson
  • Women in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle before AD 800 / Ben Snook
  • Representing authority in an early Medieval chronicle: submission, rebellion and the limits of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Ryan Lavelle
  • Monastic authority and the landscape in the Ecclesiastical History of orderic vitalis / Leonie V. Hicks
  • The enthroned king in La estoire de seint Aedward le rei (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee. 3. 59) / Judith Collard
  • Images of Queen Melisende / Sarah Lambert
  • Perspicax ingenium mihi collatum est: strategies of authority in chronicles written by women / Graeme Dunphy
  • The language of authority? The source texts for the dual chronicles of the 'Anonymous of Béthune' (fl. c. 1220) and the evolution of old French prose historiography / Gregory Fedorenko
  • Clerc, chevalier, aucteur: the authorial personae of French Medieval historians (12th-15th centuries) / Christian Bratu
  • The shadow of Dido: an interpretation of the Trojan episodes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Juliana Dresvina
  • "What you hear is the truth": authorization strategies in late Medieval Swedish rhymed chronicles / Margaretha Nordquist
  • "Ung dressoir de cinq degrez": Mary of Burgundy and the construction of the image of the female ruler / Olga Karaskova
  • Staging the court: auto-iconicity and female authority around a 1478 Burgundian Baptism / Noa Turel
  • Questionable authority: female sovereigns and their consorts in Medieval and Renaissance chronicles / Elena Woodacre.

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