Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland [electronic resource] /
Sheehan, S.editor.
Dooley, A.editor.
Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Travelers and Settled Folk: Women, Honor, and Shame in Medieval Ireland; 2. Sex in the Civitas : Early Irish Intellectuals and Their Vision of Women; 3. Looking for "Mr. Right" in Tochmarc Becfhola; 4. Playing for Power: Macha Mongrúad's Sovereign Performance; 5. Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle; 6. They Kept Their Skirts On: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography; 7. Human Frontiers in Medieval Irish Religious Literature
8. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Late Medieval Irish Rómánsaíochtai9. Speaking with Forked Tongues: Gender and Narrative in the Acallam; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.
Sociology.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature—History and criticism.
Gender Studies.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Literary History.