Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic

by Jerold C. Frakes

Jerold C. Frakes approaches the Nibelungenlied, the Klage, and the Kudrun, epic poems central to the Middle High German tradition, through a set of literary, economic, and sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812232895
• ISBN13: 9780812232899
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary