Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
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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.
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Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination by Emma O Bérat
Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Bérat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto the future, was crucial to medieval political, literary, and historical thought. While patrilineage often limited women to exceptional or passive roles, other genealogical forms that represent and promote women's claims are widespread in medieval texts. Female characters transmit power through book patronage and reading, enduring landmarks, and international travel, as well as childbearing and succession. These flexible – if messy – genealogies reflect the web of political, biological, and spiritual relations that frequently characterized elite women's lives. Examining hagiography, chronicles, genealogical rolls, and French, English, and Latin romances, as well as associated codices and images, Bérat highlights the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781009434751 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009434756 |
| Title | Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination |
| Author | Emma O Bérat |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medieval Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2024-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |