Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination Bérat Hardback

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary ImaginationMatrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages\nAuthor(s): Emma O. Brat\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009434751, 978-1009434751\nSynopsis\nUncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Brat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto the future, was crucial to medieval political, literary, and historical thought. While patrilineage often limited women to exceptional or passive roles, other genealogical forms that represent and promote women's claims are widespread in medieval texts. Female characters transmit power through book patronage and reading, enduring landmarks, and international travel, as well as childbearing and succession. These flexible.