The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Olf French Literature

by Peggy McCracken

Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.

Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, McCracken explores the ways adultery is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234324
• ISBN13: 9780812234329
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"