Hawking women : falconry, gender, and control in medieval literary culture /
Uses readings from Sir Orfeo, Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume de Machaut and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, among others, to uncover literary forms that arise from representations of avian and female bodies and to demonstrate how cultural literacy in the art of falconry mapped onto poetry and ch...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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| Summary: | Uses readings from Sir Orfeo, Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume de Machaut and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, among others, to uncover literary forms that arise from representations of avian and female bodies and to demonstrate how cultural literacy in the art of falconry mapped onto poetry and challenged patriarchal control. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814215487 0814215483 |