The romance of adultery
Subtitle: queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature
By: Peggy McCracken.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.; Romances -- History and criticism.; Adultery in literature.; Queens in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.