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

by Peggy McCracken

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Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.

Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, McCracken explores the ways adultery is...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812234324

ISBN13:9780812234329

Release Date:March 1998

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"

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