Gender Bonds, Gender Binds : : Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature /

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds : : Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature / / ed. by Alison L. Beringer, Sara S. Poor, Olga V. Trokhimenko.

While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to Englis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Altpeter, Katja,
Bennewitz, Ingrid,
Beringer, Alison L.,
Eming, Jutta,
Kraß, Andreas,
Marshall Campbell, Mary,
Meyer, Evelyn,
Poor, Sara S.,
Trokhimenko, Olga V.,
HerausgeberIn:
Beringer, Alison L.,
Poor, Sara S.,
Trokhimenko, Olga V.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Sense, Matter, and Medium : New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 223 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Peddling Devotion: Mothers and Daughters in Conversation Through Books
  • 2 Why Siegfried Has to Die: Gender, Violence, and the Social Order in the Nibelungenlied
  • 3 “If You Are Desired, Then You Are Worthy”: Mothers, Daughters, and Paradoxes of Femininity in the Middle High German Tristan Sequels
  • 4 Maternal Bonds in Konrad Fleck’s Flôre und Blanscheflûr
  • 5 Teaching a Daughter Sexual Desire and Love Lore: Herzeloyde’s Mentorship of Sigune in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Titurel and Albrecht von Scharfenberg’s Jüngerer Titurel
  • 6 Mothers and Daughters Revisited: The Mother-Daughter Songs in the Context of the Later Neidhart Tradition
  • 7 Rivalrous Masculinities: Competing Concepts of Knighthood in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermon In Praise of the New Knighthood and Hartmann von Aue’s Novella Gregorius
  • 8 A Fate Worse than Death? Virgil’s “steinîn wîp” in Jans der Enikel’s Weltchronik
  • 9 Love and Disgust: Ambiguous Genres and Ambivalent Feelings in Herzmäre
  • Index

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