The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Olf French Literature by Peggy McCracken

The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Olf French Literature

Middle Ages

Peggy McCracken

192 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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...

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