Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination: Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages...

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Emma O. Bérat

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination

Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

Emma O. Bérat

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English

Cambridge University Press
21 March 2024

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; European history; Medieval history; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; Gender studies: women

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Bérat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto the future, was crucial to medieval political, literary, and historical thought. While patrilineage often limited women to exceptional or passive roles, other genealogical forms that represent and promote women's claims are widespread in medieval texts. Female characters transmit power through book patronage and reading, enduring landmarks, and international travel, as well as childbearing and succession. These flexible – if messy – genealogies reflect the web of political, biological, and spiritual relations that frequently characterized elite women's lives. Examining hagiography, chronicles, genealogical rolls, and French, English, and Latin romances, as well as associated codices and images, Bérat highlights the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.

By: Emma O. Bérat
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781009434751
ISBN 10: 1009434756
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emma O. Bérat is an independent scholar living and working in Artigat, France. She is co-editor of Relations of Power: Women's Networks in the Middle Ages (2021), and has written extensively on women's historiography, literary patronage, and cultural movement.