Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44739-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 347 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4522 g

Reihe: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tolhurst, F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship Re-reading Empress Matilda as a Female King Geoffrey's History as Preparation for a Female King Undermining and Degrading Female Kingship in the First Variant and the Roman de Brut Delegitimizing and Erasing Female Kingship in the 'Epistola Warino Britoni,' the Chronica majora, and Layamon's Brut

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Tolhurst is Maître Assistante in Medieval and Early Modern English at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.