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Medieval Women and War - Female Roles in the Old French Tradition (Hardcover)
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Medieval Women and War - Female Roles in the Old French Tradition (Hardcover)
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For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as
a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to
the 14th centuries. The result is a skilled analysis of gender
roles in the medieval era, and a heightened awareness of how
important literary texts are to our understanding of the historical
period in which they circulated. Medieval Women and War examines
both the text and illustrations of over 30 Old French manuscripts
to highlight the ways in many of the texts differ from their
traditionally assumed (usually classical) sources. Structured
around five pivotal female types - women cited as causes for
violence, women as victims of violence, women as ancillaries to
warriors, women as warriors themselves, and women as political
influences - this important book unpicks gendered boundaries to
shed new light on the social, political and military structures of
warfare as well as adding nuance to current debates on womanhood in
the middle ages.
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