Title: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the translation of female kingship /
Authors: Tolhurst, Fiona.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Geoffrey,; Geoffrey, Criticism and interpretation.; Women in literature; English literature History and criticism; English literature Middle English; LITERARY CRITICISM General.; Women in literature
Abstract: Fiona Tolhurst offers a feminist analysis of the non-Arthurian portion of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'History of the Kings of Britain'.
Contents: 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 Wace's roman de Brut -- Delegitimizing and erasing female kingship in the "Epistola Warino Britoni," the Chronica majora, and Layamon's Brut.