The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature

Peggy McCracken

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1998

The Romance of Adultery

Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature

Peggy McCracken

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202748

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"A provocative study of an intriguing subject. . . . The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."—Romance Philology

Author / Editor information

Peggy McCracken is the Domna C. Stanton Collegiate Professor of French, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"A provocative study of an intriguing subject. . . . The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."—Romance Philology

"An original and invaluable contribution to our understanding of gender/power relations in the Middle Ages, medieval apprehensions and expectations of powerful women, and the ways in which presumably male writers imagined such women's behavior."—John Carmi Parsons

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Defining Queenship in Medieval Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Royal Succession and the Queen's Two Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Royal Sovereignty and the Test of the Queen's Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3. Rumors, Rivalries, and the Queen's Secret Adultery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
4. Adultery, Illegitimacy, and Royal Maternity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
5. Seduction, Maternity, and Royal Authority Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Conclusion: Gendering Sovereignty in Medieval France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Other: 6 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2013
ISBN: 9780812202748