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Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance (Hardcover)
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Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
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A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the
popular medieval genre of romance. The cultural and social power of
women in the Middle Ages is perhaps hard to trace, with evidence
for it scarce. This book argues that medieval romances provide a
central, but under-explored, source for and examples of such
authority. By reassessing the influence exerted by female
characters, in a spectrum that includes both intellectual and
chivalric aid and, in some cases, patronage, it considers how they
functioned as models of cultural, intellectual, and social
authority in medieval literary texts. In addition to examples set
by the family connections, socio-political networks, and textual
communities in which they lived, this study argues that women also
learned methods of influence from the books they read. In texts
like Troilus and Criseyde and Partonope of Blois, the female reader
encounters an explicit demonstration of how a woman`s intellectual
and financial resources can be used. The literary representations
of women's cultural power expose a continuum of influence from
non-material effects to material sway in the medieval patronage
system, an influence often unacknowledged in strictly historical
and extra-literary sources. Amy N. Vines is Assistant Professor in
the Department of English, University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
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