A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
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A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
The cultural and social power of women in the Middle Ages is perhaps hard to trace, with evidence for it scarce. This book argues that medieval romances provide a central, but under-explored, source for and examples of such authority. By reassessing the influence exerted by fema…