Learning to be a good husband : competing masculine identities in the Roman du Comte d’Artois

For modern critics, medieval romance was an important literary vehicle for the dissemination of contemporary gender ideologies. However, whilst studies of the construction of feminine identities in romance have proliferated in recent years, less attention has been paid to medieval views of masculin...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/crm,
Autor Principal: Brown-Grant, Rosalind
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicado: Cahiers de recherches médiévales 2006
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:For modern critics, medieval romance was an important literary vehicle for the dissemination of contemporary gender ideologies. However, whilst studies of the construction of feminine identities in romance have proliferated in recent years, less attention has been paid to medieval views of masculinity. In particular, there is one masculine role which remains largely unexplored in recent discussions of romance, even though it was crucial for the functioning of medieval gender ideology : that ...