Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 261 pages)
ISBN:
9780511576607
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature 74
Content:
In contrast to the widespread view that the Middle Ages were a static, unchanging period in which attitudes to women were uniformly negative, D. H. Green argues that around 1200 the conventional relationship between men and women was subject to significant challenge through discussions in the vernacular literature of the period. Hitherto scholarly interest in gender relations in such literature has largely focused on French romance or on literature in English from a later period. By turning the focus on the rich material to be garnered from Germany - the romances Erec, Tristan and Parzival - Professor Green shows how some vernacular writers devised methods to debate and challenge the undoubted antifeminism of the day by presenting a Utopian model, supported by a revision of views by the Church, to contrast with contemporary practice.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
9780521513357
Additional Edition:
9781107646292
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576607
