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Gendering Resistance inGarin le Loherenc, Gerbert de Mez, andRaoul de Cambrai
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandy Evans (University of Puget Sound, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 317-341 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exemplaria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/175330711x13131907446292 |
| OpenAlex | W1975086371 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
In the medieval French epics Raoul de Cambrai, Garin le Loherenc, and Gerbert de Mez, the poets sketch noble women and queens who belittle, berate, and render impotent the ruler and his men. These chansons de geste exploit and invert the topos of woman's legendary rebellious nature, voicing through subversive epic ladies an idealized feudal order predicated on loyal service and just reward. If, in the metafiction of an ideal epic world, land and lady are two sides of the gift the ideal king bestows on the ideal knight, in these works the king's brutal attempts to dominate his men waste both lady and land. Portraying the practices of scorched earth and systematic rape as political tools of royal expansion, these epics deliver powerful images of women exercising a righteous resistance through subversive acts, words, and desires. Like Eve, these epic ladies resist patriarchal dominance corporally through their desires and their mouths, and so, women's resistant tongues and desires work to restore order in political landscapes wasted by their kings' empty words and impotence
Ancient history · Art · Chivalry · EPIC · Feudalism · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Order (exchange · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Ruler · French Literature and Criticism · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Gender and religion
The formation of a persecuting society
Purity and Danger
Women and Medieval Epic
Jesus as Mother
The Government of Philip Augustus
La composition de 'Raoul de Cambrai
Family, Community and Cult on the Eve of the Gregorian Reform
Purity and Danger
Persuasive Voices
La politique et l'histoire dans les chansons de geste
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |