La Veuve en majeste: deuil et savoir au feminin dans la literature medievale.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

La Veuve en majeste: deuil et savoir au feminine dans la literature medievale. BY YASMINA FOEHR-JANSSENS. Geneva: Droz. 2000. 301 pp. SwF 50. ISBN 2-600-00422-x.

In medieval studies it has been the Anglo-American scholars who have tended to examine literary texts of the French Middle Ages from a gender perspective, whereas critics in francophone countries have been rather more circumspect about applying the insights of feminist scholarship to such works. Yasmina Foehr-Janssens's analysis of thirteenth-century narrative texts which feature variations on the well-known but ...

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