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Geoffrey of Monmouth and the translation of female kingship / by Fiona Tolhurst.

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"Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female King" provides the first feminist analysis of the part of "The History of the Kings of Britain" that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's. Fiona Tolhurst demonstrates that Geoffrey not only creates pr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Tolhurst, Fiona (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.
Subjects:
Geoffrey, > of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, > 1100?-1154. > Historia regum Britanniae.
Geoffrey, > of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, > 1100?-1154 > Criticism and interpretation.
Women in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Geoffrey, > of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, > 1100?-1154.
Historia regum Britanniae (Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)
English literature > Middle English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship
  • Re-reading Empress Matilda as a Female King
  • Geoffrey's History as Preparation for a Female King
  • Undermining and Degrading Female Kingship in the First Variant and the Roman de Brut
  • Delegitimizing and Erasing Female Kingship in the 'Epistola Warino Britoni, ' the Chronica majora, and Layamon's Brut.

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