Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Iberian Lyric

by Denise K. Filios

Performing Women in the Middle Ages approaches medieval lyric poetry through the lens of gender and performance theory and demonstrates how comic-obscene and comic-erotic songs put identity into play, including sex/sexuality, gender, rank, and social status. Denise Filios draws on modern ethnographic and performance studies to fill gaps in the medieval written record, reconstructing lyric performances, exploring how women performed themselves as poetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396730X
• ISBN13: 9781403967305
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.5"